Mørketidens Mattemøte 

Welcome to the 2025 Mørketidens Mattemøte in Tromsø!

This series of meetings is aimed at connecting mathematicians in Norway working in different areas in which algebra is applied.

The meeting will be held on January 23-24, 2025. 

Previous events in this series were held in 2019-2024.

Program

The following schedule is subject to change.

Abstracts

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Location: Teknologibygget 1.023 (map)

• 11:30 - 12:20 Lunch (sandwiches at the conference room)

• 12:25 - 12:30 Welcome address

• 12:30 - 13:20 Peter Brändén (KTH, Stockholm) – "Totally nonnegative matrices, chain enumeration, and zeros of polynomials" 

• 13:20 - 14:10 Morten Brun (UiB, Bergen) – "Density dependent topological data analysis"

• 14:10 - 14:35 Break

• 14:35 - 15:25 Kristian Ranestad (UiO, Oslo) – "Rank and cactus rank of quadratic forms"

• 15:25 - 16:05 Arvid Siqveland (USN, Porsgrunn) – "Laudal's scientific mathematical model"

• 16:10 - 16:35 Lorenzo Vecchi (KTH, Stockholm) – "Chow functions for partially ordered sets"

• 16:35 - 17:00 Jessica Renz (UiB, Bergen) – "Algebraic geometry in biology"

• 20:00 - 22:00 Conference dinner at Maskinverkstedet (map)

Friday, January 24, 2025

Location: Universitetsbibliotek auditorium 132 (map)

• 09:00 - 09:50 Iain Johnston (UiB, Bergen) – "Learning evolutionary and progressive dynamics on hypercubic transition graphs"

• 09:50 - 10:40 Tobias Boege (UiT, Tromsø) – "Polyhedra in information theory"

• 10:40 - 11:05 Break

• 11:05 - 11:55 Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard (NTNU, Trondheim) – "What is the Magnus expansion?"

• 11:55 - 12:45 Claudia Yun (UiT, Tromsø) – "The topology of the moduli space of tropical unramified p-covers"

• 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch at Teorifagskantina (map)

Questions? Please contact Cordian Riener.