Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Faculty of Science
University of Calgary
Tarski's plank problem revisited
Submitted by ppaterso on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 9:40am.
Mar 19 2009 - 2:00pm
Mar 19 2009 - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Karoly Bezdek
Location:
MS 431Colloquium
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 a survey type with a list of open research problems.