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Combinatorics: Boaz Slomka (Open U.) | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Combinatorics: Boaz Slomka (Open U.)

Date: 
Mon, 02/12/201910:00-12:00
Location: 
C-400, CS building

Speaker: Boaz Slomka (Open U.)
Title: On Hadwiger's covering problem



Abstract:
A long-standing open problem, known as Hadwiger’s covering problem, asks what is the smallest natural number N(n) such that every convex body in R^n can be covered by a union of the interiors of N(n) of its translates. 

In this talk, I will discuss some history of this problem and its close relatives, and present more recent results, including a general upper bound for N(n).