Math and Stat Colloquium

• March 20, 2023
• 4:00 PM - 5:00 CST
• IES 124
• Tuyen Tran, ttran18@luc.edu
• Open to the public.
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  Speaker: Sarah Bockting-Conrad

  Tittle: A Journey Toward Tridiagonal Pairs

  Abstract: Tridiagonal pairs are fascinating objects with connections to many other areas of mathemat- ics and physics. While their definition involves only linear algebra, the study of tridiagonal pairs has its origins in algebraic graph theory. In this talk, we start with some basic notions in graph theory and work our way toward showing how tridiagonal pairs arise naturally from the study of a certain special family of graphs. With this motivation in mind, we define tridiagonal pairs, discuss some of their properties, and describe their importance to algebraic graph theory.

  About the speaker: Dr. Bockting-Conrad earned her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. She then served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College for one year before joining the faculty at DePaul University in 2015.

  Dr. Bockting-Conrad's research interests are in tridiagonal pairs, Lie theory, algebraic combinatorics, and quantum groups.

  https://csh.depaul.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-a-z/Pages/mathematical-sciences/sarah-bockting-conrad.aspx