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Matt Satriano, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction to Valuative Trees and its connection with dynamics"

We will review where we left off last term, highlighting the main results concerning valuative trees and the role they play in Junyi Xie's proof of the Medevdev-Scanlon Conjecture for the affine plane.

MC 5403

Alex Chirvasitu, University of Buffalo

"Loosely embeddable metric spaces"

Embedding finite metric spaces isometrically into Hilbert spaces has elicited some interest outside of pure mathematics due to applications to fields like computer vision, machine learning, the structure of networks and other such areas.