Oriented Matroids

April 24, 2017, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM

Location:

Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor

Rutgers University

Hill Center

Mathematics Department

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Charles Wolf, Rutgers University

Oriented matroids are a class of matroids with a geometric flavor. We will see several examples of these, and find out why you should care about oriented matroids (or at least why Charles cares).