Computational Mathematics Colloquium | Apollonian Packings and Generalizations

Thursday, April 29, 2021 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Speaker

Alex Kontorovich | Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
sites.math.rutgers.edu/~alexk/

Title

Apollonian Packings and Generalizations

Abstract

We describe ongoing work, some experimental/computational, to understand the general setting under which Apollonian-type circle (and more generally, sphere) packings can exist and have certain magical arithmetic properties.