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Mathematical billiards, an overview
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University |
| Related Webpage: | https://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/ |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Nov 13 2018, 11:00AM |
I shall try to cover the following topics: variational approach to billiard trajectories, the area preserving property of the billiard ball map, geometry of the space of oriented lines, billiards in conics and quadrics.