Guest lectures and seminars - Page 154

The Lattice Boltzmann Method and its application in modeling of physiological  flows

Adam Sørensen (UiO) will give a talk with title: Almost commuting matrices

Abstract: Two matrices A,B are said to almost commute if AB is close to BA (in a suitable norm). A question of Halmos, answered by Lin, asks if two almost commuting self-adjoint matrices are always close to two exactly commuting self-adjoint matrices. We will survey what is known about this and similar questions, and report on recent work with Loring concerning how the questions change if we look at real rather than complex matrices.

Kristan Ranestad (Dept. of Math, UiO) gives a seminar in room 107, 1st floor N.H. Abels House at 14:15 Tuesday October 14th. Algebra og statistics: Phylogenetic models from an algebraic geometric viewpoint