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Student seminar Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics (Winter 2017)
- The introductory meeting will take place on Tuesday October 24 at 14:00 in MA 874/875.
- The assignment of topics will be on Monday October 30 at 16:00 in MA 874/875.
- Please send a mail with your name and topic to knoeppel[at]math.
This is a block seminar. Each student has to give a 45 minute talk at the end of the semester. Further each student has to attend at least 10 talks.
Talks
Monday, 5 February
Name | Titel | Zeit |
Felix Reith | Introducing symplectic billiards | 12:00 |
Lavinia Stollfuß | The limit point of the pentagram map | 13:00 |
Josef Pelz | Statistics and kinematics of frameworks in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry | 14:00 |
Nina Smeenk | Statistics and kinematics of frameworks in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry | 15:00 |
Thursday, 8 February
Name | Titel | Zeit |
Aikaterina Grylli | Lexell's theorem | 10:00 |
Rebecca Hilt | Distances in domino flip graphs | 11:00 |
Nicholas Felten | Rhombic embeddings of planar quad-graphs | 12:00 |
Laura Schumacher | Rational approximation of irrational complex numbers | 13:00 |
Friday, 9 February
Name | Titel | Zeit |
Noyan Alper Ugur | Acute Sets | 11:00 |
Martin Hanik | Visualizing Interstellar's wormhole | 12:00 |
Monday, 12 February
Name | Titel | Zeit |
Carl Lutz | Hyperbolic lines and circles | 12:00 |
Alexander Fairley | Touching conics | 13:00 |
All talks will take place at MA 874/875, all times s.t.
Topics
Alexander Bobenko
- Hyperbolic lines and circles [arxiv] (M) ← Carl Lutz
- Massive Laplace operators [arxiv] (M)
Ulrich Pinkall
- A Dirac operator for extrinsic shape analysis [pdf] ← Kai Henning
- Branches of triangulated origami near the flat state [arxiv] (M)
- Discrete geodesic nets for modeling developable surfaces [arxiv]
- Visualizing Interstellar's wormhole [arxiv] (M) ← Martin Hanik
Boris Springborn
- Lexell's theorem [article] "and references therein" ← Aikaterina Grylli
- Distances in domino flip graphs [article] (M) ← Rebecca Hilt
- Rhombic embeddings of planar quad-graphs [article] (M) ← Nicolas Felten
- Rational approximation of irrational complex numbers[article](M) ← Laura Schumacher
some background: [article] [arXiv]
John Sullivan
- Acute sets [arxiv] (M) ← Noyan Alper Ugur
- Gauss' linking number revisited [pdf]
- Random triangles and polygons in the plane [arxiv] (M) ← Dennis Choy
- The 12 spheres problem [arxiv] (M) ← Janna Golze
Yuri Suris
- Introducing symplectic billiards [arxiv] (M) ← Felix Reith
- The limit point of the pentagram map [arxiv] ← Lavinia Stollfuß
- Statics and kinematics of frameworks in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry [arxiv] (M) ← Nina Smeenk, Josef Pelz
- Periodicity and integrability for the cube recurrence [arxiv] (M)
All topics are suitable for a bachelor's thesis. Topics suitable for a master's thesis are marked with (M).
Responsible professors
Assistent: Felix Knöppel (knoeppel@math.tu-berlin.de)
Previous semester: Summer 2017
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