Forthcoming Math Seminar - 30 June

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MATHEMATICS SEMINARS 2009

Tuesday, 30 June at 14:00

"Poncelet porism and integrable billiards"

Dr. Milena Radnovic
(Mathematical Institute Sanu, Belgrade, Serbia)

Abstract: Poncelet porism is one of most beautiful and most important 
results of XIXth century projective geometry: it states that existence 
of one closed polygonal line inscribed in a given conic and 
circumscribed about another one implies the existence of an infinite 
family of such polygons.
In the talk, classical results connected with Poncelet theorem will be 
overviewed as well as new ones connected with elliptical billiards and 
their higher-dimensional generalizations.


Venue: ICTP, Leonardo Building, Seminar Room