Genera of Knots in the Complex Projective Plane Mr. Jake Pichelmeyer Kansas State University PhD Student (ABD) “Let K be a knot and M be a smooth, closed four-dimensional manifold. The M-genus of K (plural: genera) is the least genus... Read More
Probabilistic Methods in Geometry Mr. Praydeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “Parallel Straight Lines are drawn on the plane, at a distance d from each other. A needle of length L is dropped at random... Read More
An SOS Counterexample to an Inequality of Symmetric Functions Alex Heaton Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Science Postdoctoral Researcher “It is known that differences of symmetric functions corresponding to various bases are nonnegative on the nonnegative orthant exactly when... Read More