Mathstat Graduate Student Seminar - Macarena Covadonga Robles Arenas

This week, Macarena Covadonga Robles Arenas will talk to us about OuLiPo:

Do you remember the polemic that accompanied the invention of language? Mystification, puerile fantasy, degeneration of the race and decline of the State, treason against Nature, attack on affectivity, criminal neglect of inspiration; language was accused of everything (without, of course, using language) at that time. And the creation of writing, and grammar—do you think that that happened without a fight?(François Le Lionnais,Lipo: First Manifesto)

I will talk about matrices, graphs, and permutation groups; about 100,000,000,000,000 poems, a (false) conjecture of Euler, and how to write a novel using Graeco-Latin Squares.

See you all there!

All graduate students are invited. As with all talks in the graduate student seminar, this talk will be accessible to all graduate students in math and stats.This seminar was made possible by funding from the McGill Mathematics and Statistics Department and PGSS.