Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference
at James Madison University, October 22, 2011
Opening Speaker
Dr. Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
| Title: From Robotics to Geometry Abstract: Children build models with 3-dimensional cubes; mathematicians build them with higher dimensional cubes! Many physical systems can be represented by geometric models based on cubes of varying dimensions. Using an example from robotics, we will in- vestigate how such models are constructed and what can we learn from their strange, but beautiful geometry. |