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„Polygonal Outer Billiards “
Prof. Richard Schwartz , Brown University, USA

Outer billiards, invented by Bernhard Neumann in the late 1950s, is a dynamical system in which a point moves around the outside of a convex shape in the plane, according to certain rules reminiscent of the more familiar ordinary billiards. Jurgen Moser popularized the subject to a certain extent in the 1970s, treating it as a toy model for planetary motion. I will survey the highlights of this subject and then focus on my positive solution of the Moser-Neumann problem, which asks if an outer billiards system can have unbounded orbits. My talk will have lots of computer demos.

Donnerstag, den 20. Juni 2013 um 17 Uhr c.t. Uhr, in INF 288, HS2 Donnerstag, den 20. Juni 2013 at 17 Uhr c.t., in INF 288, HS2

Der Vortrag folgt der Einladung von The lecture takes place at invitation by Prof. Wienhard