BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e53fe91d2b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200831T113000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200831T113000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/algebraic-gr aph-theory-seminar-william-j-martin SUMMARY:Algebraic Graph Theory Seminar - William J. Martin CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: Scaffolds\n\nSpeaker:\n William J. Martin\n \nAffiliation:\n Worcester Polytechnic Institute\n\nZoom:\n Contact Soffia Arnadottir\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nBuilding on the work of various authors who ha ve used tensors in the\nstudy of association schemes and spin models\, I p ropose the term\n\"scaffold\" for certain tensors that have been represent ed by what are\nsometimes called \"star-triangle diagrams\" in the literat ure. The main\ngoal of the talk is to introduce and motivate these objects which\nsomewhat resemble partition functions as they appear in combinator ics.\n(The exact definition is too cumbersome to include here.)\n DTSTAMP:20250521T223022Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR