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Speaker: Jayadev Athreya
Title: Bouncing around: coding billiards in polygons
Via Zoom at 7:30 pm March 18, 2025
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How many ways can a billiard ball bounce around a table? We will describe some very new mathematics that helps answer this seemingly simple question when the billiard table is a regular polygon.One surprise is how little we know about general mathematical billiards in polygons, even though the rules involve only simple Newtonian mechanics.
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