- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - 12:10pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Balazs Strenner – GA Tech – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~bstrenner7/
- Organizer
- Timothy Duff
Taffy pullers are machines designed to stretch taffy. They can modeled
by surface homeomorphisms, therefore they can be studied by geometry and
topology. I will talk about how efficiency of taffy pullers can be
defined mathematically and what
some of the open questions are. I will also talk about Macaw, a computer
program I am working on, which does related computations and which will
hopefully help answer some of the open questions.