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GTC Postdoc Seminar: What is the realization space of a polytope? October 27, 2017 (12:45 PM PDT - 01:30 PM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Federico Castillo (University of California, Davis)
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We will first discuss when two polytopes are equivalent. There are many possible definitions, but through examples I'll motivate the most combinatorial one. Once we define a suitable equivalence, then we will consider the space of all polytopes equivalent to a given one. These spaces are wild. The talk will be flooded with graphic examples. Indeed, most of the strange phenomena can be explained in dimension 2. 

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