{"id":1806,"date":"2026-03-31T19:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:45:48","slug":"colloquium-talk-by-dr-matthew-baker-georgia-institute-of-technology-april-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2026\/03\/31\/colloquium-talk-by-dr-matthew-baker-georgia-institute-of-technology-april-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium \u2013 Talk by Dr. Matthew Baker (Georgia Institute of Technology): April 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2026 (Thursday), 4:10-5:00 PM SC 5211<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Matthew Baker<\/strong>&#8211; Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matroids with coefficients and Lorentzian polynomials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first part of the talk, I will briefly survey the theory of matroids with coefficients, which was<br \/>\nintroduced by Andreas Dress and Walter Wenzel in the 1980s and refined by the speaker and Nathan Bowler in 2016. This theory provides a unification of vector subspaces, matroids, valuated matroids, and oriented matroids. Then, in the second part, I will outline an intriguing connection between Lorentzian polynomials, as defined by Petter Br\u00e4nd\u00e9n and June Huh, and matroids with coefficients. The second part of the talk represents joint work with June Huh, Mario Kummer, and Oliver Lorscheid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2026 (Thursday), 4:10-5:00 PM SC 5211 Dr. Matthew Baker&#8211; Georgia Institute of Technology Matroids with coefficients and Lorentzian polynomials In the first part of the talk, I will briefly survey the theory of matroids with coefficients, which was introduced by Andreas Dress and Walter Wenzel in the 1980s and refined by the speaker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/03\/Matthew-Baker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}