CS39R -- Symmetry and Topology -- Spring 2016

Emerging (Tentative) Schedule -- {under construction}


 L1
   1/25 C. H. Sequin
What is symmetry?  Bilateral and Rotational Symmetries in 2D.
 L2    2/01 CHS
Translation.  Frieze Symmetries.  Symmetry Groups.
 L3    2/08 CHS Symmetry of Finite Objects.  Intro to Topology.  The Genus of an Object.
     2/15 HOLIDAY
=== Presidents' Day ===
 L4    2/22 CHS The 5 Platonic Solids.  Orientable 2-Manifolds.  Moebius Bands.
 L5    2/29 CHS Non-orientable 2-ManifoldsGlobal Connectivities of a 2D World.
 L6    3/07 CHS Classification Theorem of 2-Manifolds.  Graph Embeddings. 
 L7    3/14 CHS Parameterized Sculpture Generation.

   3/21
SPRING BREAK === No Class ===

   3/28
Break Extension
=== No Class ===> Class will be made up for on May 2nd.
 L8    4/04 CHS Highway Cloverleaf Design. +  Knot Theory.
 L9    4/11
Class, CHS
Student Project Presentations. +  Regular Homotopies.  
 L10    4/18 Class, CHS Student Project Presentations. +  Turning Things Inside-Out 
 L11    4/25 Class, CHS Student Project Presentations. +  Regular Polytopes in Higher Dimensions.
 L12    5/02
Class, CHS Improved "Elevator Speeches"Meta-Skills.  +  Wrap-up.

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