HIIT Kumpula Seminar: Making things the hard way - Turing complete interior design

Abstact:

We begin by studying a worst way to hang a painting on a wall. Encouraged by this unusual hanging method we advance to consider how to build a simple computing 'machine' by hanging paintings. Abstract mathematical ideas of knot theory and homotopy theory will be mentioned in passing, but the focus will be in concrete objects.

Bio:

Rami Luisto is a tall fourth year graduate student in pure mathematics defending his thesis this Spring. His research mainly focuses in metric- and Riemannian geometry, but sometimes he gets excited about curious factoids outside his immediate field and proceeds to go completely overboard with them.