For more information about this meeting, contact Yakov Pesin, Sergei Tabachnikov.
| Title: | Discretized configuration spaces |
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| Seminar: | Department of Mathematics Colloquium |
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| Speaker: | Aaron Abrams, Department of Mathematics Emory University |
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| Abstract: |
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| Configuration spaces model the collective motions of several objects,
such as cars on a road, packets across a network, robots in a factory, or
molecules in a solution. They also arise naturally in mathematics, and
topologists have studied them for decades.
In some contexts it is natural to approximate continuous motions by
discrete ones, thereby constructing a corresponding discretized
configuration space. We can then employ combinatorial techniques,
in addition to topological ones, for their study.
In this talk I will describe one way to carry out this discretization process,
and I will give some examples and applications in topology, geometry,
combinatorics, group theory, and robotics. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB114 |
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| Date: | 10 / 06 / 2011 |
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| Time: | 04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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