Pure Maths Colloquium: Justin Malestein
This talk is part of the Pure Maths Colloquium at the University of St Andrews. Check out our upcoming talks at https://theran.lt/pure-colloquium/.
| Where: | Lecture Theatre D |
| When: | Nov 8 2018 @ 16.00 | Video: | Not recorded |
| Speaker: | Justin Malestein University of Oklahoma |
| Title: | Rigid structures with symmetry |
I will discuss questions and problems concerning the rigidity of bar-joint frameworks as well as rigidity of other kinds of combinatorial structures. One fundamental question is whether, given a graph (or other appropriate combinatorial description), a “generic” framework with that underlying graph is rigid. In some circumstances, however, one would like to understand the rigidity of frameworks which have some symmetry and so are not fully generic. I will present some of the recent results in this direction as well as some of the difficulties and methods for proving such results.