The event details have been published on the ICTP Global portal at the public page below.
https://ictp.global/events/213035
You can also add the event directly to your calendar.
We are looking forward to seeing many of you on May 21 at 11am in the Stasi Seminar Room - and online.
With best regards,
Associates Office
Dear ICTP Community,
We are pleased to inform you that the ICTP Associates Office and the ICTP Global Science Portal are launching the "Associates Seminar Series" this coming May 21. These will be colloquium-style talks given by our Associates, aimed to the broad ICTP community.
These talks will be slightly different than usual, having a personal part and a scientific part. The speaker will talk a bit on his/her personal trajectory first, and then later gently introduce a research theme of his/her choice. The ICTP community will have the chance to get to know a bit more our Associates, both personally and professionally.
This is a particularly interesting opportunity for our students (Diploma and Ph.D.), and post-docs. The talks will be streamed online via the ICTP Global Portal. More details will follow over the next days.
Our first speaker will be Prof. Apoorva Khare (MATH, from India) on May 21 at 11am in the Stasi Seminar Room.
I am looking forward to seeing many of you there (and online).
With kind regards,
Emanuel Carneiro,
Head, Associates Office
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Speaker: Apoorva Khare (Indian Institute of Science)
Title: The history of majorization inequalities: from Newton to Macdonald
Abstract: I will gently introduce inequalities connecting symmetric polynomials and majorization. These have been studied by Maclaurin and Newton (1700s), Schlomilch (1800s), Gantmacher, Muirhead, Schur (1900s), and in ancient Greece. I will then mention (perhaps the first) weak majorization result, shown in joint work with Tao (2021). This involves Schur polynomials, and parallels results by Cuttler–Greene–Skandera and Sra (2010s). Time permitting, I will explain recent work with Chen and Sahi, where we subsume several of these inequalities by a "master" majorization inequality: using Jack or Macdonald polynomials. This is conjectural, and we prove it for 2 variables.
-----Office of Associates ICTP Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy https://www.ictp.it/home/associates-programme