Departmental Colloquium
Bernd Sturmfels
U.C. Berkeley
Convex Algebraic Geometry
Abstract: Convex algebraic geometry is an emerging field at the interface
of convex optimization and algebraic geometry. A primary focus lies on the
geometric underpinnings of semidefinite programming. This lecture offers a
self-contained introduction. Starting with elementary questions concerning
multifocal ellipses in the plane, we move on to discuss singularities and
projections of spectrahedra, and new algorithms for real algebraic varieties.
Friday April 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636