Reinhardt conjecture as a problem in optimal control theory

Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 12:00
427 Thackeray Hall
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Thomas Hales

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On February 3, I gave a colloquium talk at Pittsburgh on bad packings. This talk will give details at a level suitable for a seminar audience. I will describe the optimal control problem that governs bad packings, the associated symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian, Pontryagin maximum principle, chattering behavior, and solution strategies.

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