Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Professor
Ithaca, New York
connelly@math.cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 255-4301
Bio/Research
Discrete geometry, with emphasis on the geometry of rigid and flexible structures, is my main area of interest. A tensegrity is a structure composed of sticks held in mid-air with strings which, nevertheless, holds its shape. This can be modeled very nicely as a configuration of points with upper...
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Discrete geometry, with emphasis on the geometry of rigid and flexible structures, is my main area of interest. A tensegrity is a structure composed of sticks held in mid-air with strings which, nevertheless, holds its shape. This can be modeled very nicely as a configuration of points with upper and lower bounds on the distances between certain pairs of points. This in turn leads to interesting problems in, and applications to, distance geometry and the theory of packings and coverings of spheres as well as applications to robotics, protein folding, motion planning and percolation problems in physics and probability.
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