Symplectic geometry and inscription problems
Symplectic geometry and inscription problems
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Joshua Greene , Boston College
Fine Hall 314
The Square Peg Problem was posed by Otto Toeplitz in 1911. It asks whether every Jordan curve in the plane contains the vertices of a square, and it is still open to this day. I will survey the approaches to this problem and its relatives using symplectic geometry. This talk is based on joint work with Andrew Lobb.