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Undergraduate Awards Colloquium | Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin)

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Annenberg Hall, G15, 2120 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Title: Big hypercubes, or: how to collaborate on math with a machine

Abstract:  I'll tell a story about a recent project I worked on with a bunch of combinatorists and a mathematician at Google DeepMind, in which we used a protocol called AlphaEvolve to help us work out an interesting example.  I won't give any proofs from the paper, but everything in it is completely elementary and could have been observed 50 years ago, but happened not to be.  I'll explain how AlphaEvolve works, what the iteration between mathematicians and machine learning tools looks like in practice, and how this paper inspired the following variant of Sudoku:

https://dyadiku.netlify.app/

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Reza Gheissari
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Interest

  • Academic (general)

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