Details — Mathematics Faculty Lecture by Caryn Werner — April 4
| Date: 4/4 | Time: 4 pm |
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As part of the Mathematics Faculty Lecture Series, Caryn Werner will give a talk entitled “Chip Firing Games on Graphs” on Tuesday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in Arter Hall, Room 105.
Abstract: In the chip firing game on a graph, vertices “fire” chips to their neighbors when they have enough chips to do so. Chip firing games arise in several different areas of study: in physics as the abelian sandpile model of selfÂ-organized criticality, in probability theory as a Markov process, and in algebra as a graph analogue to algebraic curves. In this talk we will introduce the game and its application to the Riemann-Roch Theorem, an important result in algebraic geometry about functions on curves. There will be refreshments in Arter Lounge after the talk.