Speaker:Ā BillĀ HeltonĀ (UC San Diego) Title:Ā A taste of noncommutative convex algebraic geometry Abstract:Ā The last decade has seen the development of a substantial noncommutative (in a free algebra) real and complex algebraic geometry. The aim of the subject is to develop a systematic theory of equations and inequalities for (noncommutative) polynomials or rational functions of matrix variables. […]