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Faculty Research Talks (in conjunction with Graduate Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar (GARTS))

October 31, 2018, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Location:

Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor

Rutgers University

Hill Center

Mathematics Department

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Bhargav Narayanan, Rutgers University

Cutting Cake with Algebraic Topology

A group of people want to divvy up a piece of cake "fairly". What does "fairly" mean? How do they this? What does this have to do with the Borsuk--Ulam theorem? I will try to say something about these questions, and a bit more, time permitting.