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Orbitopes

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Mohamed Omar, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, Apr 15 2010, 12:00PM

An orbitope is the convex hull of an orbit of a compact algebraic group $G$ acting linearly on a real vector space. We discuss three different perspectives: convexity, algebraic geometry, and optimization, as discussed in the paper by Sanyal, Sottile, and Sturmfels.