First Meeting

Series
Convex Algebraic Geometry Reading Seminar
Time
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Greg Blekherman – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Greg Blekherman
The topic this semester will be Nonnegative and PSD Ranks of matrices. We will begin by discussing the article "Lifts of Convex Sets and Cone Factorizations" by Gouveia, Parrilo and Thomas, which makes the connection between factoring slack matrices of polytopes and finding computationally efficient representations of polytopes.