16 December – Lisa Sauermann: On the cap-set problem and the slice rank polynomial method (Kovalevskaya Colloquium)
This Kovalevskaya talk will give some background on the cap-set problem, and then explain Tao's proof of the Ellenberg-Gijswijt bound via the slice rank polynomial method. Sauermann will also discuss some related problems and results. Lisa Sauermann is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the Massachusetts