Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik

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Organizers

C. Blohmann, M. Kapranov, P. Teichner, B. Vallette

Speakers

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This meeting is part of the series of workshops Young Women in... 

The main lectures will be given by (note that the list of our main speakers is updated)

• Ailana Fraser
• Esther Cabezas-Rivas
• Julie Rowlett

The workshop provides a platform for female graduate students and postdocs in Geometry to present their research. The main lectures will be complemented by participants' talks and a poster exhibition.

In 1956, the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title `Print Gallery‘. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in. A lot is known about the way in which Escher made his lithograph. It is not nearly as well known that it contains a hidden `Droste effect‘, or infinite repetition; but this is brought to light by a mathematical analysis of the studies used by Escher. On the basis of this discovery, a team of mathematicians at Leiden produced a series of hallucinating computer animations. These show, among others, what happens inside the mysterious spot in the middle of the lithograph that Escher left blank.