Speaker:  Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary
Title:   Plank problems - the discrete geometric side.
Time: 2:30 PM, Friday, October 9, 2009 Note the change in date.
Place:  Malott 206

Abstract:  In the 1930's, Tarski introduced his plank problem at a time when the field Discrete Geometry was about to born.  It is quite remarkable that Tarski's question and its variants continue to generate interest in the geometric and analytic aspects of coverings by planks in the present time as well. The talk is of a survey type with some new results and with a list of open research problems on the discrete geometric side of the plank problem.

September 30, 2009