For more information about this meeting, contact Dmitri Burago, Mari Royer, Yakov Pesin.
| Title: | Elementary surprises in projective geometry |
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| Seminar: | Center for Dynamics and Geometry Seminar |
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| Speaker: | S. Tabachnikov, Penn State |
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| Abstract: |
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| Jointly with R. Schwartz, we have recently discovered eight new (?) configuration theorems of projective geometry, somewhat similar to the classical Pappus and Pascal theorems. These theorems involve n-gons with n from six to twelve. I shall describe these results and illustrate them by computer graphics. I shalll explain how they originated in our study of the pentagram map, a completely integrable system on the moduli space of polygons in the projective plane. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB106 |
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| Date: | 11 / 04 / 2009 |
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| Time: | 03:30pm - 04:00pm |
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