- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 269
- Speaker
- Karoly Bezdek – University of Calgary – bezdek@math.ucalgary.ca – http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/karoly-bezdek
- Organizer
- Mohammad Ghomi
In the 1930's, Tarski introduced his plank problem at a time when the field
Discrete Geometry was about to born.
It is quite remarkable that Tarski's question and its variants continue to generate
interest in the geometric and analytic
aspects of coverings by planks in the present time as well. The talk is of a survey
type with some new results and with
a list of open problems on the discrete geometric side of the plank problem.