Geometric Structures seminar - Carlos Beltran - May 26, 2022 - 2:00 pm (Rome Time)

[Miruna - Stefana Sorea]

Dear All,

This is to announce the next seminar from the series "Geometric Structures".

Speaker: Carlos Beltran (Universidad de Cantabria)

Title: Smale’s 7th problem: an overview

Time: May 26, 2022, 2:00 pm (Rome Time)
Venue: room 134
on zoom at this link:
https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/85675591787?pwd=TUo2VXpmcEhOU1paRzBXUWp2MU1odz09
Passcode: geometry

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Abstract:
Smale’s 7th problem demands for an algorithm to find finite collections of points in the 2-sphere, in such a way that they minimize some energy that one may think of as the classical electrostatic potential. This beautiful problem (which is the computational version of a problem posed by J. J. Thomson, the discoverer of the electron) has attracted the attention of dozens of researchers and, although it is considered extremely difficult, the hope for solving it has not vanished. In this talk I will present the problem from a general perspective, showing its relations with other questions, mentioning the most important results obtained to the date and posing several open questions in the path to the total solution. The talk will be directed for a general audience.

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More information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/geometric-structures/
Everyone is welcome!


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Miruna-Stefana Sorea
Postdoctoral Researcher
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
https://sites.google.com/view/mirunastefanasorea/