2022 Fall

15.15-16.00: Reception

16.00-16.45: Introductory talk

17.00-18.00: Main lecture

We prove that given a finite collection of cylinders in R^3 with the property that any two of them intersect, there is a line intersecting an alpha-fraction of the cylinders where alpha=1/14. This is a special case of a recent and interesting conjecture.

15.15-16.00: Reception

16.00-16.45: Introductory talk: How to Code AI Algorithms

15.15-16.00: Reception

16.00-16.45: Introductory talk by Stefan Mihajlović: How to get around a 4-manifold?