Dear all,
Sending on behalf of Marc Meketon – a RAS member – who is the sponsor of this talk and he believes many of you will find it interesting.
Save the Date!
2022 INFORMS Philadelphia Chapter Virtual Speaker Series
A New Flat Map of a Sphere via Stress Minimization
Presented by Robert Vanderbei
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Event Details
When: Wednesday, February 16th @ 6:00pm (to 7pm)
Where: Zoom – click here to register
Abstract
Earth is not flat---it's a sphere. Maps as they appear in books or on computer screens are flat. Hence, it's an interesting challenge to find a projection from the sphere to a flat surface that accurately preserves that structure and metrics one inherits from the sphere. Recently Gott, Goldberg and myself, introduced a new map that is better than all previously studied maps. In this talk, I will describe this map, why it's best, and a new way of thinking about this map based on a very intuitive physical description of the map making process.
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Andrea Arias
Sr. Operations Research Scientist II
BNSF Railway
Fort Worth TX
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