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:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e2c66671dc DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221114T113000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221114T113000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/algebraic-gr aph-theory-seminar-paul-horn SUMMARY:Algebraic Graph Theory Seminar - Paul Horn CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTitle: Graphs\, curvature\, and local discrepancy\n \nSpeaker:\n Paul Horn\n\nAffiliation:\n University of Denver\n\nLocation: \n contact Sabrina Lato for Zoom link\n\nAbstract: Spectral graph theory\, the use of eigenvalues to study\ngraphs\, gives an important window into many properties of graphs. \nOne of the reasons for this is that the eige nvalues can be used to\ncertify the `pseudo-randomness' of the edge set of a graph.  In\nrecent years\, several notions of discrete curvature have been\nintroduced that gives a 'local' way (depending on the neighborhood\n structure of vertices) to study some of the same properties that\neigenval ues can capture. \n DTSTAMP:20250521T194126Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR