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Title: Hadamard’s Maximal Determinant Problem and Generalisations

Speaker: Guillermo Nunez Ponasso Affiliation: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Location: Please contact Sabrina Lato for Zoom link

Abstract:  Any matrix $M$ of order $n$ with entries taken from the complex unit disk satisfies Hadamard’s determinantal inequality $|\det M|\leq n^{n/2}$. Matrices meeting this bound with equality have pairwise orthogonal rows and columns. Such matrices are known as Hadamard matrices, and character tables of finite abelian groups give examples at every order.