CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar: Polynomials vanishing at lattice points in convex sets

Name: CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar: Polynomials vanishing at lattice points in convex sets
Start: 2022-01-27T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-01-27T10:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtually

When: January 27, 2022

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Where: Virtually

Speaker: Fabian Gundlach - Harvard University

Let P be a convex subset of R^2. For large d, what is the smallest degree r_d of a polynomial vanishing at all lattice points in the dilate d*P? We show that r_d / d converges to some positive number, which we compute for many (but maybe not all) triangles P.

Zoom ID: 950 2372 5230 (Password: cmsa)