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Problems of Enumeration and Realizability on Matroids, Simplicial Complexes, and Graphs

Yvonne Kemper
Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, NIST

Wednesday, August 6, 2014 15:00-16:00,
Building 225, Room B111
Gaithersburg
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 13:00-14:00,
Room 1-4058
Boulder

Abstract:

What does a combinatorial space look like? How is it put together? How many are there? These fundamental questions and others like them give rise to two important themes in geometric combinatorics: realizability and enumeration. In this (friendly, fun, and not-for-profit) talk, we introduce three such problems (as well as the relevant background) and explore recent research and future directions.

Speaker Bio: Yvonne received her BA in Math and Astrophysics from UC Berkeley, then completed her PhD in mathematics at UC Davis under Jesus De Loera and Matthias Beck. After a suitable amount of time bumming around Europe and Northern Africa, she joined NIST as an NRC Post-doc with Isabel Beichl. She is excited to hear about your graphs, matroids, lattices, simplicial complexes (or other objects) and their combinatorics and geometry!


Presentation Slides: PDF


Contact: B. Cloteaux

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