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Optimal rope racking: what many physicists "know" (and some mathematicians believe)

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  • UserRob Kusner (University of Massachusetts)
  • ClockTuesday 22 August 2023, 15:00-15:30
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PMVW01 - 5th International Conference on Packing Problems: Packing and patterns in granular mechanics

What’s the most dense way to pack a collection of curves into a finite volume container subject to a uniform “thickness” constraint on the curves?  We’ll explore what’s known (a little) or unknown (a lot) about this question, discuss a number of putatively-optimal examples which illustrate the subtleties, and make some conjectures about what to expect about the optimal  configurations “almost everywhere”!

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