Sphere packings and the geometry of numbers

Seminar: 
Whittemore Lectures
Event time: 
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
215 LOM
Speaker: 
Akshay Venkatesh
Speaker affiliation: 
Stanford
Event description: 

I’ll discuss the best known sphere packings in high dimension, and how they relate to the geometry of numbers –
in particular, to (different) notions of random lattices.