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Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext 33038
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Friday, March 6, 2020 1:00 PM EST
Title: Recognizing slack matrices
Speaker: Matt Gerstbrein Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 5417Abstract:
This week, we will be discussing the topic of slack matrices. Slack matrices arise in the context of lifts of polytopes, where, given a polytope P, we can characterize the existence of a lift of P of a given size in terms of properties of an associated slack matrix.
Friday, March 6, 2020 3:30 PM EST
Title: Binary Submatroids
Speaker: Peter Nelson Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 5501Abstract:
A binary matroid can be thought of as a set of nonzero binary vectors.