Tomorrow's guest lecture

[Kevin Lin]

Hi guys,

Tomorrow, during the first hour of class, we will have a guest lecture given by Patrick "Patch" Kessler. Patch got his PhD from Berkeley in mechanical engineering in 2007; he now does engineering and design work in industry. He'll be speaking about an application of discrete math to a problem in design. I hope you guys can make it! It will be a cool talk.

I've also just finished grading the midterms, and I will be returning them back to you after Patch's talk.

Best,

Kevin

[Kevin Lin]

Thanks to those who attended. I hope you guys enjoyed it.

Here's Patch's website: http://www.mechanicaldust.com/

Here's his paper describing his work: http://www.mechanicaldust.com/Documents/Partitions_05.pdf

Here's an applet which allows you to "explore" different rectangle arrangements: http://www.mechanicaldust.com/applet/index.html

Here's a website with some information about the poster: http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps/3x4grid.html