Description
Title: Heaps and applications
Speaker: K N Raghavan
Affiliation: The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)
Abstract: This talk is based on the recently concluded 19-lecture course by Xavier Viennot at IMSc, and is meant as publicity for the videos
(freely and perpetually accessible) of those lectures on the Matscience Youtube channel. The lectures are jam-packed with new and elegant proofs of well known results, myriad applications--- from graph theory to Lie algebras and their representations to statistical physics and even quantum gravity---and open problems
of varying difficulty. We will take a tour through the basic definition, the main technical results, and some applications.