Packing and Tightening Rope

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• Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Tuesday 29 August 2023, 13:15-14:30
• Theory Library.

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What’s the most dense way to pack a collection of curves into a finite volume container subject to a uniform “thickness” constraint on the curves? We’ll explore what’s known (a little) or unknown (a lot) about this question, discuss a number of putatively-optimal examples which illustrate the subtleties, and make some conjectures about what to expect about the optimal configurations “almost everywhere”!

This talk is part of the Theoretical Physics Seminars series.

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