Monday, September 21, 2015 (3:30 p.m. in Yost 102)
Title: Elastic curves in Euclidean space
Speaker: David Singer (Professor and Interim Chair, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: Using the notion of a Killing Field Along a Curve, we are able to completely integrate the equations of the elastica in Euclidean space. We...
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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...