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Sphere packings and the space of high-dimensional lattices November 14, 2011 (02:00 PM PST - 03:00 PM PST)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Akshay Venkatesh
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I will describe some modest improvements in the lower bound
for high-dimensional sphere packings, and related questions
about the "shape" of the space of lattices in R^N, when N is large.

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