> Junior Colloquium
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> Title: Tiling Problems and Modular Arithmetic
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> Time: 3:40pm - 4:30pm
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> Room: Ayres 405
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> Speaker: Jim Conant
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> Abstract:
> Can you tile a 100x100 square grid with a 1x8 tile? It turns out that you
> cannot, a fact which follows from a theorem of David Klarner, published in
> 1969. Interestingly, the proof makes essential use of modular arithmetic.
> We will discuss Klarner's theorem and other related tiling problems from
> his 1969 paper.
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