Charles Radin
University of Texas at Austin
November 16, 2007 from 16:00 to 18:00 (Montreal/Miami time) On location
Colloquium presented by Charles Radin (University of Texas at Austin)
The densest possible packings of congruent spheres in space are highly symmetric, for reasons still unknown. We will review an approach to understand this phenomenon through packings which are merely dense rather than densest, and conclude with recent attempts to model the properties of sand.
Address
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, room 6214