April 18, 2019
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Math Tower 154
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Ergodic Theory / Probability Seminar - Diana Davis
Title: Tiling billiards and interval exchange transformations
Speaker: Diana Davis (Swarthmore College)
Abstract: Tiling billiards is a new dynamical system where a beam of light refracts through a planar tiling. It turns out that, for a regular tiling of the plane by congruent triangles, the light trajectories can be described by interval exchange transformations. I will explain this surprising correspondence, and will also discuss the behavior of the system for other interesting tilings.
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2019-04-18 15:00:00
2019-04-18 16:00:00
Ergodic Theory / Probability Seminar - Diana Davis
Title: Tiling billiards and interval exchange transformations
Speaker: Diana Davis (Swarthmore College)
Abstract: Tiling billiards is a new dynamical system where a beam of light refracts through a planar tiling. It turns out that, for a regular tiling of the plane by congruent triangles, the light trajectories can be described by interval exchange transformations. I will explain this surprising correspondence, and will also discuss the behavior of the system for other interesting tilings.
Math Tower 154
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America/New_York
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Title: Tiling billiards and interval exchange transformations
Speaker: Diana Davis (Swarthmore College)
Abstract: Tiling billiards is a new dynamical system where a beam of light refracts through a planar tiling. It turns out that, for a regular tiling of the plane by congruent triangles, the light trajectories can be described by interval exchange transformations. I will explain this surprising correspondence, and will also discuss the behavior of the system for other interesting tilings.
