Undergraduate Research Forum (SPUR 2017)

Students directed by Florian Frick
Short talks in the area of topological methods in discrete geometry

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 1:00pm
Malott 406

1:00 – 1:20
Intersection patterns of sets
Jai Aslam (Northeastern University), Shuli Chen (Cornell University), Ethan Coldren (Colorado State University), and Linus Setiabrata (Cornell University)

1:25 – 1:45
Borsuk-Ulam theorems for joins and 2-tori
Addie Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Shujian Chen (Northeastern University), and Tristan Hull (Cornell University)

1:50 – 2:10
Splitting necklaces and loops
Jai Aslam (Northeastern University), Shujian Chen (Northeastern University), Sam Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), and Linus Setiabrata (Cornell University)

2:15 – 2:35
Kneser-type results for power sets and obstructions for embeddings
Addie Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Tristan Hull (Cornell University), George Spahn (Brown University), and Linus Setiabrata (Cornell University)