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CATEGORIES:Academics,Lectures/Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Richard Stanley\, MIT\n\nAbstract: Given a s
 et of plane shapes (tiles)\, together with a region R of the plane\, a tili
 ng of R is a filling of R with the tiles without overlap in their interiors
 . A jigsaw puzzle is a familiar (though not very mathematical) example. We 
 will survey some interesting mathematics associated with plane tilings. In 
 particular\, we will discuss how mathematics can be used to investigate the
  following questions: Is there a tiling? If so\, how many are there? If it 
 is infeasible to find the exact number of tilings\, then approximately how 
 many tilings are there? If a tiling exists\, is it easy to find? Is it easy
  to prove that a tiling does not exist? Is it easy to convince someone that
  a tiling does not exist? What does a "typical" tiling with the given tiles
  and region look like? What are the relations among different tilings? What
  special properties\, such as symmetry\, could a tiling possess? These ques
 tions involve such subjects as combinatorics\, group theory\, probability t
 heory\, number theory\, and computer science.
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DTSTAMP:20260420T120951Z
DTSTART:20160929T210000Z
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LOCATION:Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building\, 641
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SUMMARY:Plane tilings
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URL:https://events.mtu.edu/event/plane_tilings
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