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      • REU 2020
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      • REU 2018
      • REU 2017
    • Creative Inquiry
  • Graduate
    • Path to Research Readiness
    • Algebra Prelim Preparation
    • Advanced teaching experience
  • Research
    • Early Career Research Workshop in Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Number Theory
      • 2019 ECRW
      • 2018 ECRW
    • Reading and working groups
    • RTG – Coding, Cryptography and Number Theory (CCNT) Seminar
    • Shannon Centennial at Clemson
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2016/17: Nigel Boston

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2016 Lecture Series with Nigel Boston, University of Wisconsin‑Madison

  • 09/26/2016
    “Overview of Applied Algebra” – video – slides
    Abstract: 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.
  • 09/27/2016
    “Entropy Regions and the Four-Atom Conjecture” – video
    Abstract: I shall introduce entropy regions, motivated by network coding, and then note how they are equivalent to something in finite group theory, allowing us to address fundamental questions regarding these regions.
  • 09/28/2016
    “Low-Rank Matrix Completion” – video
    Abstract: “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 results.
  • 09/29/2016
    “Belgian Chocolate Problem” – video
    Abstract: I shall introduce the Belgian Chocolate Problem, a question from robust control theory amenable to algebraic attack and mysteriously connected to the abc conjecture, and a few other open odds and ends.

 

Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. DMS:1547399. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.