Tutte seminar - Jim Geelen

Friday, October 4, 2013 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Rota's Conjecture

Speaker: Jim Geelen
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: Mathematics and Computer Building (MC) 5158

Abstract:

In 1970, Gian-Carlo Rota posed a conjecture giving a succinct
combinatorial characterization of the linear dependencies among a finite set of vectors in a vector space over any given finite field.
I will discuss joint work with Bert Gerards and Geoff Whittle that led to a
solution.