18–20 Nov 2025
Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Europe/Brussels timezone

Invited lecture 3 : The combinatorics of alternating sign matrices

19 Nov 2025, 15:30
1h
CYCL01 (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

CYCL01

Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve)

Speaker

Roger Behrend (Cardiff University)

Description

An alternating sign matrix is a square matrix in which each entry is -1, 0 or 1, and along each row and column the nonzero entries alternate in sign, starting and ending with a 1. In this talk, I will discuss various intriguing combinatorial results involving these matrices and related objects.

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