Week of Events
Peg solitaire in multiple colors on graphs (Tara Davis, Hawaii Pacific University and Roberto Soto, Cal State Fullerton)
Peg solitaire in multiple colors on graphs (Tara Davis, Hawaii Pacific University and Roberto Soto, Cal State Fullerton)
Peg solitaire is a popular one person board game that has been played in many countries on various board shapes. Recently, peg solitaire has been studied extensively in two colors on mathematical graphs. We will present our rules for multiple color peg solitaire on graphs. We will present some student and faculty results classifying the solvability of the game […]
Kauffman Bracket Skein Modules and their Structure (Rhea Palak Bakshi, ETH Zurich)
Kauffman Bracket Skein Modules and their Structure (Rhea Palak Bakshi, ETH Zurich)
Skein modules were introduced by Jozef H. Przytycki as generalisations of the Jones and HOMFLYPT polynomial link invariants in the 3-sphere to arbitrary 3-manifolds. The Kauffman bracket skein module (KBSM) is the most extensively studied of all. However, computing the KBSM of a 3-manifold is notoriously hard, especially over the ring of Laurent polynomials. With […]
Voronoi Tessellations: Optimal Quantization and Modeling Collective Behavior (Prof. Rustum Choksi)
Voronoi Tessellations: Optimal Quantization and Modeling Collective Behavior (Prof. Rustum Choksi)
Title: Voronoi Tessellations: Optimal Quantization and Modeling Collective Behavior Speaker: Prof. Rustum Choksi, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University Abstract: Given a set of N distinct points (generators) in a domain (a bounded subset of Euclidean space or a compact Riemannian manifold), a Voronoi tessellation is a partition of the domain into N regions […]