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| ID | 447 |
|---|---|
| First Name | Richard |
| Last Name | Ligo |
| Institution | University of Iowa |
| Speaker Category | graduate student |
| Title of Talk | Escaping Flatland: An Introduction to Surface Curvature |
| Abstract | What if I told you that the majority of ideas conveyed in high school geometry classes are thousands of years old? What if I told you that your understanding of geometry was tremendously incomplete? Believe it or not, one can argue that the first true departure from ancient Greek geometry wasn't published until 1826! In this talk, we describe one such departure and its implications. We begin by describing the curvature of a curve, use this to define the curvature of a surface, and conclude by visiting a famous egregious result. This talk even includes snacks! |
| Subject area(s) | Differential geometry |
| Suitable for undergraduates? | Y |
| Day Preference | Either |
| Computer Needed? | Y |
| Bringing a laptop? | N |
| Overhead Needed? | N |
| Software requests | Some sort of PDF viewer--it's a Beemer talk. |
| Special Needs | A table on which to setup a few snacks. (They're certainly not elaborate, so any simple thing will do. Still, it probably needs to be bigger than the typical classroom student desk.) |
| Date Submitted | 09/26/2016 |
| Year | 2016 |