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Convex Geometry

Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Michael Music, University of Kentucky

We will look at some properties of curves of constant width in the plane and talk about why the Reuleaux triangle minimizes area among all such curves. We will then briefly look at the conjectured minimizer for 3-dimensions. Time permitting, we'll also look at the problem of minimizing/maximizing the Mahler volume among all centrally symmetric convex bodies. Again there are conjectured minimizers, but still no proof!