Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture: Ileana Streinu, Smith College
Maxwell’s Problem, 150 years later: from bridges to nano-mechanics
4:00 pm
Location:
Avery Hall
Room: 115
Finding a combinatorial characterization for rigid bar-and-joint frameworks in dimensions higher than 3 is an easy-to-state yet elusive, long standing open problem in rigidity theory, originating in two geometry papers from the 19th century of the …