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Poster Awards:
Casey-Wagemaker, Emily
Viehl, Emily
Indoung, Chayapuntika
Presentation Awards:
French,Zachary
Troupe, Jacob
Xia, Congzhi
Jeopardy Winners:
Amoah-Darko, Frederick Laud
Lufkin, Leon
Troupe, Jacob
Fuller, Daniel
Chicoine, Noah
Kuhns, Brian
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Abstract Submission Date: Oct 13, 2018
Registration Date: Oct 13, 2018
Conference Date: Oct 27, 2018
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About Keynote Speaker: Jeff Weeks
Jeff fell in love with geometry in 12th grade when he read the book Flatland. While an undergraduate at Dartmouth College he bounced back and forth between math and physics, eventually settling on math and going on to study topology at Princeton University with Bill Thurston and his students, whose colored-chalk approach to mathematics Jeff loved. After teaching at Ithaca College, Jeff resigned to be a full-time Dad for several years. From there he became a free-lance geometer, at first part-time, then full-time. He enjoyed extensive work with the Geometry Center and the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as smaller gigs for science museums and teaching at Middlebury College. In 1999 an unexpected phone call brought a MacArthur Fellowship: five years of unfettered work on the topology of the universe, along with time to develop educational materials for middle schools and high schools. More recently, with NSF support, Jeff has developed software that lets non-specialists explore beautiful and surprising worlds in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions. He's currently taking a brief "leave" from software development to write a 3rd edition of his book The Shape of Space. After that he plans to write VR software so people can enjoy full-immersion visits to interesting spaces. His first VR project will let people play pool in hyperbolic geometry.
Keynote Speaker, Jeff Weeks
Title: The Shape of Space
Abstract
When we look out on a clear night, the universe seems infinite. Yet this infinity might be an illusion. During the first half of the presentation, computer games will introduce the concept of a “multiconnected universe”. Interactive 3D graphics will then take the viewer on a tour of several possible shapes for space. Finally, we'll see how satellite data provide tantalizing clues to the true shape of our universe. The only prerequisites for this talk are curiosity and imaginationKeynote Speaker, Puck Rombach:
Title: Graph structure and algorithm complexity
