Thursday April 24th, 2025 | |
| Time: | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM |
| Title: | Inscription problems and symplectic geometry |
| Speaker: | Joshua Greene, Boston College |
| Abstract: | |
| The square peg problem was posed by Otto Toeplitz in 1911. It asks whether every Jordan curve in the place contains the vertices of a square, and it is still open to this day. I will survey the approaches to this problem and its relatives using symplectic geometry. This talk is based on joint work with Andrew Lobb. | |