Aditya Sarma Phukon: Billiard Dynamics

Event Date
2025-03-27
Event Time
05:00 pm ~ 06:00 pm
Event Location
Wachman 617

Join us for a talk on billiards played on non-rectangles. And, of course, there will be free pizza!

 

Abstract: For far too long has Big Rectangle dominated the industry of billiard tables. In this talk we shall dare to play pool on other shapes and along the way, maybe unearth some geometric properties of the space and the space of these spaces we're playing on. And we will do this all based on the fundamental principles of reflection, a little group theory, hyperbolic geometry and complex analysis.