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+/* If you have not already done so, please begin the heading below
+   with a date in YYYY-MM-DD format followed by a short description.
+   This is what will appear in the event listing and the event list
+   itself is sorted by this.   */
+==== 2009-03-02 Kyle Burke Lecture ====
+<html><center></html>//##The Winifred Asprey Lecture Series in Computer Science##//\\
+\\
+Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science in honor of\\
+Winifred Asprey ‘38 Emeritus Professor of Computer Science\\
+\\
+###Atropos: A Sperner Triangle Game###\\
+\\
+Kyle Burke\\
+Boston University\\
+Monday, March 2, 4pm\\
+OLB, Computer Science 105\\
+<html></center></html>
+\\
+Sperner's Triangle, a classic combinatorics tool, provides the
+backdrop for a new board game, Atropos, which we present in
+this talk. We discuss the rules of the game and play once
+against the audience! Following this, we use computer science
+to determine whether the game is a "good" game, showing
+that Atropos is PSPACE-complete for our main evidence.\\
+\\
+Google for 'Atropos game' to find a playable applet of the
+game.\\
+\\
+Kyle Burke is a graduate student at Boston University working towards a Ph.D. in
+boardgames. When not teaching, he creates combinatorial games and analyzes
+their computational complexity. This, unfortunately, does not leave him enough
+time to actually play them.