Date & time
Friday, February 12, 2016
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
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Mathematics & statistics research seminar
Determinants of super-size: why and how
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Contact
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB 921-4
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Pizza and soft drinks will be served after the talk.
SPEAKER: Dr. Marco Bertola
ABSTRACT: Determinants are familiar to every student in math (hopefully). Interesting things happens when we try to compute determinants of large (infinite) size, be it as a limit of increasing size matrices or directly of appropriate infinite dimensional operators.
I will give examples of applications of such large determinants to random processes and to algebraic geometry, and mention some methods for addressing their computation.