For more information about this meeting, contact Yakov Pesin, Sergei Tabachnikov.
| Title: | A Cop and Robber Solve the Kakeya Needle Problem |
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| Seminar: | Department of Mathematics Colloquium |
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| Speaker: | P. Winkler, Dartmouth College |
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| Abstract: |
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| We show that when pitted against each other, optimal strategies
for a certain pursuit-and-evasion game construct a small region in
the plane containing unit-length line segments at all angles.
Joint work with Y. Babichenko, Y. Peres, R. Peretz, and P. Sousi. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB114 |
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| Date: | 10 / 25 / 2012 |
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| Time: | 03:35pm - 04:25pm |
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