University of Washington

Starting from just a sheet of paper, by folding, stacking, crumpling, sometimes tearing, we will explore a variety of phenomena, from magic tricks and geometry to elasticity and the traditional Japanese art of origami. Much of the show consists of...

The Conference on Random Matrix Theory and Numerical Linear Algebra will take place June 20-24, 2022 at the University of Washington in Seattle. The conference aims to bring together researchers from areas such as random matrix theory, numerical...

CCAAGS-22 will bring together researchers working in the creative mixture of combinatorial and computational ideas in applied algebraic geometry. The conference will also celebrate Bernd Sturmfels and his contributions to the field on the occasion of...

Our world swirls with percentages, ratios, and graphs. These numbers are often presumed to be objective reflections of reality. But they are not. To measure a human-designed society requires human-designed measures, with all attendant foibles folded...

The 22nd Northwest Probability Seminar is supported by the University of Oregon, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Baidu, University of Washington (Friends of Mathematics Fund), and Milliman Fund. The Birnbaum Lecture in...

The periodic orbits and their structure are fundamental features of a dynamical system. In an algebraic setting, where the system is defined by polynomials, we can use tools from algebraic or arithmetic geometry to study these orbits. Important...

A nodal real algebraic curve in the affine plane is called expressive if its defining polynomial has the smallest number of critical points that is allowed by the topology of the set of real points of the curve. This notion can be viewed as a "global...

A useful way of producing samples from a given measure ν on a state space Ω is by providing a Markov chain whose stationary measure in ν. In order to be able to sample efficiently, one needs to show that the chain "mixes" quickly in terms of the rate...

A linear conic programming problem aims at minimizing a linear objective over the intersection of an affine set and a closed convex cone. The conic feasibility problems we study in this talk naturally arise from the optimality conditions of linear...