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| + | ==== 2009-03-02 Kyle Burke Lecture ==== | ||
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| + | Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science in honor of\\ | ||
| + | Winifred Asprey ‘38 Emeritus Professor of Computer Science\\ | ||
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| + | ###Atropos: A Sperner Triangle Game###\\ | ||
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| + | Kyle Burke\\ | ||
| + | Boston University\\ | ||
| + | Monday, March 2, 4pm\\ | ||
| + | OLB, Computer Science 105\\ | ||
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| + | Sperner' | ||
| + | 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 " | ||
| + | that Atropos is PSPACE-complete for our main evidence.\\ | ||
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| + | Google for ' | ||
| + | game.\\ | ||
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| + | 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, | ||
| + | time to actually play them. | ||
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