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SUMMARY:General Mathematics Colloquium, Jop Briët 
 (CWI)
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Jop Briët (CWI)
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract.  Grothendieck's inequality i
 s a fundamental result to the theory of Banach spa
 ces. But many years after Grothendieck published t
 his result, people realized that it also has impor
 tant applications in theoretical computer science 
 and physics. In particular, the inequality can be 
 used in quantum information theory to study the my
 sterious phenomenon of quantum entanglement and in
  combinatorial optimization to prove performance g
 uarantees of efficient approximation algorithms fo
 r NP-hard problems. The aim of this talk is to giv
 e an overview of these applications and explain wh
 y Grothendieck's inequality and recent generalizat
 ions of it are powerful mathematical tools to stud
 y them.    The General Mathematics Colloquium home
 page can be found at http://www.science.uva.nl/res
 earch/math/Calendar/colloq/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n      <p>\n        
 <I>Abstract</I>.<br/>\n        Grothendieck's ineq
 uality is a fundamental result to the\n        the
 ory of Banach spaces. But many years after Grothen
 dieck\n        published this result, people reali
 zed that it also has\n        important applicatio
 ns in theoretical computer science and\n        ph
 ysics. In particular, the inequality can be used i
 n quantum\n        information theory to study the
  mysterious phenomenon of\n        quantum entangl
 ement and in combinatorial optimization to\n      
   prove performance guarantees of efficient approx
 imation\n        algorithms for NP-hard problems. 
 The aim of this talk is to\n        give an overvi
 ew of these applications and explain why\n        
 Grothendieck's inequality and recent generalizatio
 ns of it are\n        powerful mathematical tools 
 to study them.\n      </p>\n    \n      <p>\n     
    The General Mathematics Colloquium homepage can
  be found at\n<a target="_blank" href="http://www.
 science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/">htt
 p://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/coll
 oq/</a>\n      </p>\n    
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