Lonely Runners and My Favorite Polyhedron (Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University)
Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Lonely Runners and My Favorite Polyhedron Speaker: Matthias Beck, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University Abstract: We study the Lonely Runner Conjecture, conceived by Wills in the 1960's, and originally phrased in terms of Diophantine approximation: Given positive integers n_1, n_2, ..., n_k, there exists a positive real number t such that for all […]