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A Look at Matroids

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Karl Hallowell, UC Davis
Location: 693 Kerr
Start time: Wed, Oct 13 2004, 12:10PM

These combinatorical objects are surprisingly versatile and appear in many places in mathematics. We'll look at a simple representation of matroids, a few more of the many representations of matroids, and what you can do with matroids. In particular, we shall find that one cannot be too greedy with matroids!

This talk is intended for everyone and will not be directed just to specialists in combinatorics.