Seminar series
Date
Wed, 26 Jan 2011
Time
11:30 -
12:30
Location
ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Speaker
David Hume
Organisation
University of Oxford
Many problems in computer science can be modelled as metric spaces, whereas for mathematicians they are more likely to appear as the opening question of a second year examination. However, recent interesting results on the geometry of finite metric spaces have led to a rethink of this position. I will describe some of the work done and some (hopefully) interesting and difficult open questions in the area.