CSE graduate students are invited to attend the Mathematics department’s AMS Graduate Student Chapter Colloquium being held next Friday, March 1, from 4-5 p.m. in Avery 115. This year's speaker is Dr. June Huh from the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University.
Title: "Lorentzian Polynomials"
Abstract: I will give a gentle overview of my work with Petter Brändén on Lorentzian polynomials (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03719), which link continuous convex analysis and discrete convex analysis via tropical geometry. The class contains homogeneous stable polynomials, volume polynomials of convex bodies and projective varieties, as well as some partition functions considered in statistical physics. No specific background will be needed to enjoy the talk.
About Dr. Huh: Dr. June Huh is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University whose research is primarily in combinatorial algebraic geometry. He started out as a physics and astronomy major at Seoul National University with the intention of becoming a scientific journalist, but in his last year of his undergraduate studies he met Heisuke Hironaka, a famed Japanese Mathematician and Fields Medalist, who encouraged him to study mathematics. In 2009, Dr. Huh started his graduate studies at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, and then finished his studies at the University of Michigan, where he earned his PhD in 2014. As a graduate student, he solved Read’s conjecture, and shortly after earning his PhD he, along with Karim Adiprasito and Eric Katsz, solved the Heron-Rota-Welsh Conjecture. He has won numerous awards for his work, with the most recent being the 2019 New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics.