| Start Date: | 4/25/2018 | Start Time: | 3:00 PM |
| End Date: | 4/25/2018 | End Time: | 4:00 PM |
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Event Description
Diana Davis, Swarthmore College Abstract: Periodic billiard paths on regularpolygons are beautiful to look at, and have an elegant mathematical structure related to continued fractions. I'll show you what happens on the familiar
square, and then delve into my recent work with Samuel Lelièvre on the regular pentagon. There are infinite "families"of periodic paths on the pentagon, whose members all have a similar appearance but get more and more complicated. I'll show some beautiful examples of these families, and explain how we use the group structure on the
set of periodic directions to obtain them. You can see six such families here: youtube.com/watch?v=98olU9ANGns |
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Location:
Academic Building, Room 302, 101 N 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
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