Title: Log-Concavity of Characteristic Polynomial Coefficients in Representable Matroids
Abstract: June Huh’s groundbreaking work established the log-concavity of the coefficients of the characteristic polynomials of representable matroids over fields of characteristic zero. In this talk, we will explore the techniques and ideas behind this proof.
Fall 2024
August 23, Friday Sagnik Jana Sublinearly Morse boundary
September 9 Rachel Skipper Braiding groups of homeomorphisms of the Cantor set
October 21 Meenakshy Jyothis Towards Ivanov’s meta-conjecture for geodesic currents
November 4 Alex Margolis Coarse homological invariants of metric spaces
November 11 Petr Kosenko Random walks on Fuchsian groups and Hardy spaces: an unexpected connection
November 25 Ekaterina Rybak Frattini subgroups of hyperbolic-like groups
December 2 Dimitrios Nikolakopoulos Log-Concavity of Characteristic Polynomial Coefficients in Representable Matroids
Spring 2025
Feb 10 Spendcer Dowdall
March 3 Xiangdong Xie
March 10 Tarik Aougab
April 28 Behrang Forghani
Spring 2024
Feb 26 Thomas Ng Quotients of free products
March 4 Mark Pengitore Residual finiteness growth functions of surface groups with respect to characteristic quotients
March 18 Sahana Balasubramanya The semi simple theory of acylindricity in higher rank
