Benter Foundation<\/a>, is designed to feature speakers who can present a topic in modern mathematics of interest to research mathematicians, but at the same time make it accessible to the science-interested\u00a0public\u00a0in Pittsburgh and its surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\tHuh\u2019s talk will focus on \u201cProjection areas of 4-dimensional shapes.\u201d The lecture description says:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cConsider a convex body in 4-dimensional space \u2014 perhaps an ellipsoid or a polytope. When we project the convex body onto the six coordinate planes, we obtain six planar shadows whose areas we can measure. This leads to a deceptively simple question: which six numbers can arise as these projection areas?<\/p>\n
\t\u201cBehind this concrete geometric problem lies a web of deep mathematics connecting Minkowski’s classical work on the isoperimetric problem to recent developments in algebraic geometry. I will trace the path to the answer, revealing the rich mathematical landscape that emerges from this seemingly elementary question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe lecture series is organized by Ivan Yotov, Carl Wang-Erickson and Armin Schikorra, all faculty in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences\u2019 Department of Mathematics.<\/p>\n
\n\tSee last year\u2019s lecture from James Maynard on the\u00a0math department\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual \u201cPittsburgh Mathematical Horizons\u201d Public Lecture Series is back for its second year with another Fields medal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1594,10605,497,3398,73,75,74,1164,3315,10604,10603],"class_list":{"0":"post-154290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-graduate","10":"tag-learning","11":"tag-pitt","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news","15":"tag-research","16":"tag-students","17":"tag-undergraduate","18":"tag-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}