Mathematics of Juggling
Abstract:Several juggling patterns can be very precisely represented using
sequences of numbers. We will demonstrate how jugglers use numbers to describe
juggling patterns. Not all sequences of numbers give valid juggling sequences.
The condition determining whether a sequence is a valid juggling sequence
turns out to be connected to a combinatorial problem in group theory. Apart from
this connection, we will also discuss some other combinatorial results on juggling
sequences in this talk.
Speaker Bio
Prof. Bireswar Das is a faculty member at IIT Gandhinagar. He did his PhD from
Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2010. His research interests are in Algorithms
for Algebraic and Combinatorial Problems and Computational Complexity Theory.
His other interests include juggling and unicycling.