- Series
- Algebra Seminar
- Time
- Monday, April 5, 2010 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- Frank Sottile – Texas A&M
- Organizer
- Anton Leykin
An orbitope is the convex hull of an orbit of a compact group acting linearly on a vector space. Instances of these highly symmetric convex bodies have appeared in many areas of mathematics and its applications, including protein reconstruction, symplectic geometry, and calibrations in differential geometry.In this talk, I will discuss Orbitopes from the perpectives of classical convexity, algebraic geometry, and optimization with an emphasis on motivating questions and concrete examples. This is joint work with Raman Sanyal and Bernd Sturmfels.