This page is under construction. First created on June 21 2007
Don't forget to visit also my papers page.
Some recent talks I've given:
- The cinderella of math.
Date: 8 june 2007.
Place: Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid
In the International Symposium "The Frontiers of Mathematics".
This talk elaborates on the
following paragraph, by A. Björner and R. P. Stanley:
The recent
development of combinatorics is somewhat like a cinderella story. It
used to be looked down on by "mainstream" mathematicians as being
somehow less respectable than other areas, in spite of many services
rendered to both pure and applied mathematics. Then along came the
prince of computer science with its many mathematical problems and
needs. And it was combinatorics that best fitted the glass slipper
held out.
You can get the PDF file (8.6 Mb) of all slides, or
the slides synchronized with the actual audio of the talk, in mov (34 Mb) or mp4 (64 Mb)
format.
- Triangulations of polytopes
Date: 28 August 2006.
Place: Palacio de Congresos, Madrid.
In the International Congress of Mathematicians.
A talk introducing some aspects of triangulations of polytopes and their relation to several areas of mathematics (computational geometry, topological combinatorics, algebraic geometry). Intended for general mathematical audiences.
You can get the PDF file (~800K) of all slides.
See also the paper
- Introducción a la Teoría de la Rigidez (Introduction to rigidity theory)
Date: 25 July 2006
Place: El Escorial, Madrid.
In the II Escuela de Educación Matemática Miguel de Guzmán".
A talk in Spanish introducing rigidity theory. It owes a lot to the very nice booklet "Counting of Frameworks" by Jack Graver (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, n. 25, Mathematical Association of America, 2001).
You can get the PDF file (~1700K) of all slides.