Grad Student Colloquium

Liam Orovec, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Solving the Rubic’s Cube (Group)"

Everyone has seen a Rubik's Cube, maybe some of you have solved it once or twice. But if there was some sort of omnipotent being what is the most amount of moves they would take to solve it. This concept is known as God's Number, we will go over the basic ideas proof as well as the history in the best known results leading up to the proof. We will also go over some other math related facts about the cube and other related puzzles. Puzzles will be provided to play with if you rather do that then listen to the talk.

MC 5417