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| ID | 435 |
|---|---|
| First Name | Deborah |
| Last Name | Kent |
| Institution | Drake University |
| Speaker Category | faculty |
| Title of Talk | Can you be happy with your piece of cake? |
| Abstract | This talk will consider questions of equitable and envy-free division. We will prove Sperner's Lemma -- an elegant graph-theoretic result due to Emmanuel Sperner -- and apply it to conclude the existence of an envy-free division of cake. |
| Subject area(s) | Game Theory, Graph Theory |
| Suitable for undergraduates? | Y |
| Day Preference | Either |
| Computer Needed? | Y |
| Bringing a laptop? | Y |
| Overhead Needed? | N |
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| Date Submitted | 09/06/2016 |
| Year | 2016 |