Needless buffoonery with Buffon's needle

Abstract

This talk will be a gentle introduction to the classical Buffon’s needle problem, which can be stated as follows: can you measure length of a set by randomly tossing a needle on top of it? Time permitting, we will also discuss some modern incarnations of this question. The talk may involve throwing pens around the room, proceed with caution.

Damian Dąbrowski

Postdoc in mathematics

My research interests include geometric measure theory and harmonic analysis.