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SUMMARY:Math Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:
 Colloquium\n
 \n
 John Lesieutre from Penn State University 
 will be speaking.\n
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 The topic of the 
 colloquium is "Polynomial interpolation is 
 harder than it sounds."\n
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 This colloquium takes 
 place online.\n
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 The description is:\n
 Suppose 
 that (x1,y1),...,(xr,yr) is a set of points 
 in the plane. Given a degree \n
 d and multiplicities 
 mi, does there a nonzero polynomial 
 in two variables of degree at most d which 
 vanishes to order at least mi at(xi,yi)? What 
 is the dimension of the space of such polynomials, 
 and how does it vary with the parameters? 
 I will explain some of the basic results 
 and conjectures and show how this problem is 
 connected to some questions of current interest 
 in algebraic geometry.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Department of Mathematics\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: https://www.math.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Department of Mathematics\n
 Contact phone: (517) 353-0844\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://www.math.msu.edu/Seminars/CalendarView.aspx?month-of=September2016\n
LOCATION:Zoom link provided on Math Seminars page
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