This event is in the past.It took place on March 20, 2026 at East Hall.

On Fox’s trapezoidal conjecture (Combinatorics Seminar) 1
Educational Talk

On Fox’s trapezoidal conjecture (Combinatorics Seminar)

March 20 at 2:30pm

At East Hall

Burns Park, Ann Arbor

📜Conjecture dates to 1962, still unsolved in general
🔗Alternating links are a special class of mathematical knots

Explore one of mathematics' enduring puzzles: a 60-year-old conjecture about the elegant patterns hidden in alternating knots. This talk reveals how modern geometers are cracking it using permutahedrons and Lorentzian polynomials.

Advanced mathematics
Academic lecture
Niche intellectual
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