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Planting Trees for Combinatorial Geometry-Oriented Teens

October 01, 2025, 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

Max Aires, Rutgers University

Combinatorial Geometry is a branch of math which, surprisingly, lies at the intersection of combinatorics and geometry. Who would have guessed. We'll talk about some classical extremal problems with points and lines in the plane. Maybe they'll be some poetry involved too.