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The Happy Ending Problem

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Travis Scrimshaw, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Mon, Apr 9 2012, 4:10PM

In 1932, Klien-Szekeres proposed the following question: How many points in the plane do you need to determine a convex k-gon? I will be discussing what is known about this conjecture.