NT seminar tomorrow: Jesse Wolfson (UC Irvine)

[Bianca Viray]

Hello everyone,

For the last seminar of the academic year, we are happy to have Jesse Wolfson from UC Irvine who will speak on Perspectives on Hilbert's 13th Problem. As usual, the seminar is at 11am in PDL C-401 and we will go to lunch with the speaker after the talk.

Abstract: There are still completely open fundamental questions about polynomials in one variable. One example is Hilbert’s 13th Problem, a conjecture going back long before Hilbert. Indeed, the invention of algebraic topology grew out of an effort to understand how the roots of a polynomial depend on the coefficients. The goal of this talk is to explain part of the circle of ideas surrounding these questions, discuss partial progress and explore current obstructions. This is ongoing joint work with Benson Farb and Mark Kisin, as well as with Claudio Gomez-Gonzales, Sidhanth Raman and Alex Sutherland.

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Bianca Viray (she/her)

Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner Professor of Mathematics

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

https://sites.math.washington.edu/~bviray/