{"id":591,"date":"2017-09-25T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/discretemaths\/?p=591"},"modified":"2017-10-07T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T03:23:06","slug":"591","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/2017\/09\/25\/591\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Tutte Centenary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrated the Bill Tutte Centenary Year with a half-day event consisting of the following short talks about his life, work, and influence on mathematics:<\/p>\n<p>      Graham Farr:    Overview of Tutte&#8217;s life<br \/>\n      Kerri Morgan:  Squaring the square<br \/>\n      Ron Steinfeld \/ Amin Sakzad:   Tutte&#8217;s work at Bletchley Park in WW2<br \/>\n      Kai Siong Yow:  The dissection of equilateral triangles into equilateral triangles<br \/>\n      Graham Farr:   A ring in graph theory<br \/>\n      Ranjie Mo:   A contribution to the theory of chromatic polynomials<br \/>\n      Jane Gao:   When can vertices be all paired up?<br \/>\n      Sanming Zhou (Melb):   A family of cubical graphs<br \/>\n      David Wood:   How Tutte would draw a graph<br \/>\n      Grant Cairns (La Trobe):   The Hanani-Tutte Theorem<br \/>\n      Norman Do:   Tutte&#8217;s topological recursion<br \/>\n      Daniel Mathews:   The Tutte polynomial and knot theory<br \/>\n      Andrew Elvey Price (Melb):   Some counting problems on planar maps<br \/>\n      Nick Wormald:   My impressions of Tutte<\/p>\n<p>William (Bill) Tutte (1917-2002) became a research mathematician while still an undergraduate at Cambridge in the late 1930s, broke the toughest Nazi codes while at Bletchley Park in WW2, and became one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.  His work saved countless lives during the war and led the development of graph theory.  His work was usually inspired by pure curiosity or recreational puzzles, but has been applied in domains as diverse as electrical circuits, statistical physics and information visualisation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrated the Bill Tutte Centenary Year with a half-day event consisting of the following short talks about his life, work, and influence on mathematics: Graham Farr: Overview of Tutte&#8217;s life Kerri Morgan: Squaring the square Ron Steinfeld \/ Amin Sakzad: Tutte&#8217;s work at Bletchley Park in WW2 Kai Siong Yow: The dissection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}