Friday, February 20, 2015 (12:45 p.m. in Yost 306 with refreshments at 12:30 p.m.)
Title: Matrix Inequalities and Applications
Speaker: Ben Li (Graduate Student, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: We present some classical inequalities involving matrices, namely Rotfel'd Inequality and Fuchs-van de Graaf inequalities. Next, we sketch some of their applications to the geometry of Schatten...
Yearly Archives: 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Umbral Moonshine
Speaker: Miranda C.N. Cheng (Assistant Professor, Institute of Physics and Korteweg-de Vries Institute of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam)
Abstract: In this talk we will describe recent developments in umbral moonshine, including unexpected relationships between finite groups and mock modular forms.