Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with J. Lengler, A. Steger, and D. Steurer)

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 12:15 pm

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Ulysse Schaller

The Symmetric Rendezvous Problem

Two friends have agreed to meet up in the Mozart café in Vienna on a given day. However, once they arrive in Vienna they realize that there are actually n different Mozart cafés in the city. They want to meet as quickly as possible, but they have no mean of communication and have not agreed on a meeting-strategy in advance. This is the so-called symmetric rendezvous problem (on discrete locations). Although it is extremely simple to state, the optimal strategy is still unknown, even for n=5 for example. In this Mittagseminar, I will talk about what is known and what remains open for this problem.

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