Department of Mathematics Distinguished Lecture: Mathematics of Juggling

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Allen Knutson, PhD, Cornell University

Abstract: In the early 1980s three groups of jugglers invented or discovered the same system for denoting juggling patterns. I'll begin by explaining what such a system is good for, and then how this particular one is the simplest or most natural system.

I'll give many demonstrations and explain a number of theorems about it. With results from the '80s, '90s, '00s, and (one of mine) from this year.

Contact Information

Pavel Grinfeld
pg77@drexel.edu