Optimal packing of circles in planar regions
Sheung-Hung Poon
Department of Computer Science
HKUST

November 14, 2003
11-11:50 AM
Room 3501, HKUST


Abstract
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It is well-known that the densest packing of circles
in the plane is the hexagonal lattice of the bee's
honeycomb. However, not much is known about the
densest packings of circles in planar regions such
as equilateral triangels, squares, or circles.
In this talk we survey the current state of art,
present some conjectures, and consider other variants 
of the problem