Abstract for the talk on 05.06.2023 (15:00 h)

Seminar on Nonlinear Algebra

Marie Brandenburg
The best ways to slice a polytope
05.06.2023, 15:00 h, MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig, G3 10 (Lecture hall)

We study the structure of all possible affine hyperplane sections of a convex polytope, and we craft algorithms that compute optimal sections for various combinatorial and metric criteria.

This is joint work with Jesus De Loera and Chiara Meroni.