Colloquium-September 18, 2015

Friday, September 18, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Determining the Maximum Number of Moves Needed to Solve Rubik's Cube Speaker: Morley Davidson (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University) Abstract: Determining the maximum number of moves required to solve an arbitrary scrambling of Rubik's Cube is a problem that goes back...

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Analysis and Probability Seminar- September 15, 2015

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: On the approximation of a polytope by its dual L_p-centroid bodies Speaker: Elisabeth Werner (Professor, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: We show that the rate of convergence on the approximation of volumes of a convex symmetric polytope P in R^n by...

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