名人大讲堂

讲座人：Marston  Conder
所在单位： University of Auckland, New Zealand
讲座题目：Spotting Patterns in Computational Data
时间：2019.10.21(周一)：16:00—17:00
地点：565net必赢客户端校本部教二楼627教室
联系人：杜少飞
介绍：Marston Conder于1980年在牛津大学获得博士学位，他是新西兰皇家科学院院士、奥克兰大学distinguished教授，是代数、组合、图论等领域的国际杰出学者，曾荣获新西兰皇家学会最高奖。曾任新西兰皇家科学院院长、奥克兰大学副校长、新西兰数学会理事长、代数领域期刊《Communication in Algebra》编委等职。现任《Groups, Complexity & Cryptology》等3个SCI期刊的编委。在《Advance in Mathematics》, 《J. London Math. Soc.》,《Tran. Amer. Math. Soc.》等数学领域顶级期刊上发表论文近150余
Abstract:
Computing can be very useful in mathematics, in all kind of ways:
long or multiple calculations, simulations, modelling, optimisation,
and so on.  But also it can be helpful as a means of experimenting with
examples or small cases, and often the results of those computations
reveal things that we might not otherwise discover.  In particular,
there may be patterns evident in the output data that can lead the way
to wider insights, and even infinite families of significant examples.
In this lecture, I'll give a few instances of how this has happened in
much of my own research (on symmetries of graphs, maps, polytopes and
Riemann surfaces), sometimes with surprising outcomes.