GAUSS

The GAUSS speaker today is Alex Zupan, and he is giving a talk titled:
"The Hausdorff metric: the magic and the mystery."  From the looks of
that title one could get the impression that Alex is a mathemagician.
His abstract will appear below.

GAUSS occurs today, Tuesday October 19, at 4:30 P.M. in 118 MLH.
Snacks will be provided and everyone is welcome to attend.  We are
always looking for ways to improve GAUSS, so if you have suggestions
feel free to e-mail or talk to either Trent or me.

Your GAUSS co-organizers,
Ross and Trent


ASTRACT: Everyone learns how to find the distance between two points in
a standard precalculus class, but what about the distance between two
sets?  For any two points in Euclidean space, there exists a unique
point at a given location between them.  However, in the geometry of
the Hausdorff metric, intuitive facts from the realm of Euclidean
geometry are no longer valid.  In this talk, we provide a glimpse into
the strange world of the Hausdorff metric.  Think graph theory won't
be involved?  Think again!