Friday, March 25, 2016 (4:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: The Surface Area Deviation of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope
Student: Steven Hoehner
Advisor: Elisabeth Werner (Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Committee Members: Harsh Mathur (CWRU Physics), Carsten Schuett (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel), Wojbor Woyczynski (CWRU MAMS)
Abstract: The approximation of convex bodies by polytopes has numerous applications...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Combinatorial Trigonometry (and a method to DIE for)
Speaker: Arthur T. Benjamin (Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College)
Hosted by Chris Butler
Abstract: Many trigonometric identities, including the Pythagorean theorem, have combinatorial proofs. Furthermore, some combinatorial problems have trigonometric solutions. All of these...