- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech School of Mathematics – stavros@math.gatech.edu
- Organizer
- Craig Sloane
Dodgson (the author of Alice in Wonderland) was an amateur
mathematician who wrote a book about determinants in 1866 and gave a copy
to the queen. The queen dismissed the book and so did the math community
for over a century. The Hodgson Condensation method resurfaced in the 80's
as the fastest method to compute determinants (almost always, and almost
surely). Interested about Lie groups, and their representations? In
crystal bases? In cluster algebras? In alternating sign matrices?
OK, how about square ice? Are you nuts? If so, come and listen.