Reading Group on Entropy and Counting- Jorn van der Pol

Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Title: Applications of the entropy method: Brégman's theorem

Speaker: Jorn van der Pol
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: Following Section 5 of Galvin's notes on Entropy and Counting, we consider Radhadrishnan's beautiful entropy proof of Brégman's theorem on the permanent of a 0-1 matrix.