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Nov
14
2024

Special Year Seminar II

Foundations of Matroids
Oliver Lorscheid
10:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The second lecture features the nuts and bolts of the invariants from first lecture, which we call foundations. We explain the structure theorem for foundations of ternary matroids, which is rooted in Tutte's homotopy theorem. We show how this...

Nov
14
2024

Special Year Seminar II

Tits's Dream: Buildings Over F1 and Combinatorial Flag Varieties
Oliver Lorscheid
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The theme of the third lecture is the notion of points over F1, the field with one element. Several heuristic computations led to certain expectations on the set of F1-points: for example the Euler characteristic of a smooth projective complex...

Nov
18
2024

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed, June Huh, Thomas Lam, and Bernd Sturmfels

This event aims to foster collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The focus will be on the intersection of combinatorial geometry and fundamental physics, covering...