Extreme Rays of Locally PSD Cones

Series
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Time
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 9:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
ONLINE
Speaker
Kevin Shu – Georgia Tech – kshu8@gatech.edu
Organizer
Kevin Shu

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Locally PSD matrices are a generalization of PSD matrices which appear in sparse semidefinite programming. We will try to explore some connections of extreme rays of this type of matrix with algebraic topology.