Talk
The use of cumulants, secant varieties and toric geometry
- Azeem Khadam (Government College University, Lahore)
Abstract
Cumulants are basic objects in probability and statistics. In this talk we will discuss the use of certain variation of them to study secant varieties of Segre products. We will further mention some of the geometric properties of these varieties recently investigated by Michalek, Oeding and Zwiernik. Moreover, we will discuss the joint ongoing work with Michalek and Zwiernik about "secant varieties of special embeddings of affine spaces".
