Robert L. Grossman : Adding Trees: Some Applications of Algebras of Trees to Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Posted by , part of the Graduate Student Colloquium.

At

Sept. 7, 2007, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 636

Abstract

Trees have been an important tool in computation since at least the work of Cayley. Less well known are how algebras of trees can also be used as a computational tool. In this talk, we survey some of the uses of algebras of trees in applied mathematics and computer science.