The Atlantic Association for Research in Mathematical Sciences Collaborative Research Group invites the campus community to a seminar entitled "Sets of sums and sums of sets" that will be livestreamed from Acadia University. The presenter is Dr. Franklin Mendivil, a faculty member in Acadia's Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a member of the AARMS CRG. The live "webinar" will take place on Friday, February 5 at 2:30 pm in AVC Lecture Theatre B.

Abstract: Given a list of numbers, what do you get when you look at the set of all possible sums of parts of the list? It turns out that many times you get a set with interesting fractal structure. In this talk we will introduce this idea and explore the geometric structure of the resulting set of sums. We will also discuss generalizations to 2D (and higher) and present many examples. This framework of “sumsets” is a nice method.

For more information, contact Dr. Shafiqul Islam at sislam@upei.ca