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Apr17

East Coast Optimization Meeting 2025

Apr 17, 2025, 8:00 AM - Apr 18, 2025, 5:00 PM

Mason Square, George Mason University
3351 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201

Apr17

Dissertation Defense - Bonface Ogutu Osoro - Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

Apr 17, 2025, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exploratory Hall, Room 2312 or email Bonface Ogutu Osoro for Zoom link

Apr17

Dissertation Defense - Hui Li - Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

Apr 17, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM

4087 University Drive, Conference Room 2006, Fairfax, 22030

or email Hui Li for Zoom link

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Mathematics Colloquium: Vector Bundles and Combinatorics

Apr 25, 2025, 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Speaker:  Chris Manon, University of Kentucky.

Title: Vector Bundles and Combinatorics

 

Abstract: Vector bundles are important objects in topology and various flavors of geometry.  In algebraic geometry they provide invariants of spaces as well as powerful notions of positivity.    I'll give an introduction to vector bundles in the special case when the space is a toric variety.  In this setting everything can be made into a wonderful combination of linear algebra with some discrete data.  Then I'll make some comments on how vector bundles are being used to port powerful structural principles and intuition from algebraic geometry into combinatorics.

 

Time:  Friday, April 25, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Place:  Exploratory Hall, room 4106

Zoom and In-person

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