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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 4:30pm

Louis Theran

Temple University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C6

As we add rigid bars between points in the plane, at what point is there a giant (linear-sized) rigid component, which can be rotated and translated, but which has no internal flexibility? If the points are generic, this depends only on the combinatorics of the graph formed by the bars.