Fejes Tóth's Contact Conjecture.
Speaker:
Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh
Date and Time:
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Abstract:
In 1969, L. Fejes Tóth made the following conjecture. In 3-space any packing of equal balls such that each ball is touched by twelve others consists of hexagonal layers. This lecture will describe a recent computer-assisted proof of this conjecture.
