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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 295 - Mathematics Colloquium
Thomas Lam
Harvard University
Modern Total Positivity
Abstract:
Total positivity is the study of real matrices all of whose minors are positive. I will talk about some old problems in total positivity, and discuss some relations of total positivity with combinatorics, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.
Host: Fan Chung Graham
November 18, 2008
3:00 PM
AP&M 6402
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