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Monday Lecture and Colloquium


Monday, July 7, 2015

(ZIB) Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin
Takustr. 7
14195 Berlin
Lecture hall



Lecture - 14:00 (s.t.)

Greg Blekherman - Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta

Convex geometry of nonnegative polynomials

Abstract:
The talk is the first one in the identically entitled lecture series given at the BMS summer school "Convex geometry - discrete and computational" . It will survey on results and methods presented in the course
Convex geometry - discrete and computational




Colloquium - 16:00

Location:
Freie Universität Berlin
Takustr. 9
14195 Berlin
Hörsaal der Informatik

Philip Brinkmann - FU Berlin

The first example of a sphere with a flag vector that is not the flag vector of a polytope

Abstract:
This talk deals with the sets of flag vectors of convex $4$-polytopes and $3$-spheres. After a short introduction to the main concepts, we will show that these sets differ. In particular, we will examine a $3$-sphere $W_{12}^{40}$ with flag vector $(f_0,f_1,f_2,f_3;f_{02})=(12,40,40,12;120)$:
we will show its non-polytopality via oriented matroids and its uniqueness with the given flag vector via a complete enumeration of 2s2s $3$-spheres with up to $12$ vertices.

This is joint work with G. M. Ziegler.



Letzte Aktualisierung: 03.07.2015