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Orbitopes
Student-Run Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Mohamed Omar, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Apr 15 2010, 12:00PM |
Description
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.