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

[Antonio Lerario]

Dear All,

today's seminar will be entirely from remote, on zoom at this link:
https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/85675591787?pwd=TUo2VXpmcEhOU1paRzBXUWp2MU1odz09
Passcode: geometry

Best,
A.



Il giorno lun 23 mag 2022 alle ore 12:53 Miruna - Stefana Sorea <
msorea at sissa.it> ha scritto:

> 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
>
> ----
> 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.
>
> ----
> More information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/
> geometric-structures/
> Everyone is welcome!
>
>
> --
> *Miruna-Stefana Sorea*
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
> https://sites.google.com/view/mirunastefanasorea/
>
>

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