Thematic Einstein Semester on
Geometric and Topological Structure of Materials
Summer Semester 2021
Speaker
Bernd Sturmfels (MPI Leipzig / UC Berkeley)
Title
3264 Conics in A Second
Abstract
Enumerative algebraic geometry counts the solutions to certain geometric constraints. Numerical algebraic geometry determines these solutions for any given instance. This lecture illustrates how these two fields complement each other, especially in the light of emerging new applications. We start with a gem from 19th century geometry, namely the 3264 conics that are tangent to five given conics in the plane. Thereafter we turn to more current themes that are inspired by semidefinite programming and linear models for Gaussian random variables.
Contact
tes-summer2021@math.tu-berlin.de