Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 1:30 PM-6:30 PM
Room J4 (San Jose Convention Center)
Chairs:
Christian Ratsch, PhD, Associate Adjunct Professor and Associate Director of Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
,
Suzanne Lenhart, PhD, Associate Director for Education, Outreach, and Diversity, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
,
Ricardo Cortez, PhD, Professor, Tulane University
and
Ivelisse Rubio, PhD, Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
Description: A polytope is the higher-dimensional generalization of a polygon. After discussing some of the basic facts about them, we will study the problem of measuring a polytope by counting the lattice points inside it. This problem arises very naturally in several areas of mathematics and leads to some beautiful combinatorics.
Sponsored by: NSF Mathematics Institutes