Info: The AGDM seminar is a joint seminar of the University of Vienna and TU Wien. In winter semesters, we meet on Tuesdays from 15:00 to 16:30 at the University of Vienna. In summer semesters, we meet on Tuesdays from 15:15 to 16:45 at TU Wien.
Since 2025, we use a mailing-list to advertise the seminar. You can register here.
Place: University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, BZ 09 (first room on the right on the 9th floor)
Time:Tuesday, 15:00-16:30
| Date: | Tuesday 21.10.2025 |
| Title: | MathMagic: A positroidal action over a deck of cards |
| Speaker: | Sergio Alejandro Fernandez de Soto Guerrero (TU Graz) |
| Abstract: | Positroids are a subclass of matroids born in the study of the non-negative Grassmanian by Postnikov in 2006. Since then, there have been a plethora of combinatorial objects indexing positroids, two of these being the families of decorated and bicolored permutations, which are generalizations of classical permutations. These two families can be used to study properties of positroids, and as a byproduct we end up with useful ways to describe a group action on a deck of cards. In this context, we give a definition of invariants under this group action allowing us, as an application, to develop new magic tricks with unusual ways of shuffling cards. |
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