Matroids and log-concavity

Series
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Time
Friday, March 2, 2018 - 10:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 254
Speaker
Marcel Celaya – Georgia Tech – mcelaya@gatech.eduhttp://people.math.gatech.edu/~mcelaya6/
Organizer
Kisun Lee
In this talk we will discuss the paper of Adiprasito, Huh, and Katz titled "Hodge Theory for Combinatorial Geometries," which establishes the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of a matroid.