by Travis Baumbaugh  

Overview of Applied Algebra I shall give a somewhat personal introduction to applied algebra, starting with coding theory and cryptography and then leading to a wide variety of topics.

Entropy Regions and the Four-Atom Conjecture I shall introduce entropy regions, motivated by network coding, and then note how they are equiv- alent to something in finite group theory, allowing …

Low-Rank Matrix Completion I shall describe recommender systems such as Netflix, which seek to complete arrays from sparse data, and explain our recent work using algebraic geometry to obtain uniqueness …