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Volumes of matroid polytopes
Algebra & Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Jeffrey Doker, UC Berkeley |
| Location: | 3106 MSB |
| Start time: | Fri, Mar 13 2009, 2:10PM |
Lots of familiar combinatorial objects can be described in terms of things called Matroids, and every Matroid can be represented as a polytope. It turns out that these Matroid polytopes, as well as some other related polytopes, can be decomposed into nice Minkowski sums of simplices, and this in turn allows us to compute their volumes. *****Please note the room change for this week!*****