Event time:
Friday, October 27, 2023 - 10:00am
Location:
KT 801
Speaker:
Richard Schwartz
Speaker affiliation:
Brown University
Event description:
In this talk I will explain my recent solution of the Halpern-Weaver Conjecture. The result is that a strip of paper that is 1 unit wide must be more than sqrt(3) units long in order for it to be smoothly folded into a paper Moebius band, and this bound is sharp. The proof is elemetary enough that I can explain the whole thing during the talk. I’ll also talk about lots of related unsolved problems.