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  • Apr
    10

    Seminar: Folding Heighway Dragon Curves (Shin-Cheng Mu)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    1:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    Thursday / CS Seminar
    April 10th / 1:00 PM
    Hybrid / Mudd 3514

    Speaker
    Shin-Cheng Mu, Research Fellow in Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    Talk Title
    Folding Heighway Dragon Curves

    Abstract
    The Heighway Dragon is one of the most known fractal curves. There are two ways to construct the curve: repeatedly make a copy of the current curve, rotate it by 90 degrees, and connect them; or repeatedly replace each straight segment in the curve by two segments with a right angle. A natural question is how do we know the two approaches are equivalent? We represent a dragon curve by a list, and generalize the construction of the curve to allow rotations to both sides. It turns out that the two approaches are respectively a "fold-right" and a "fold-left", and the task is to show that the two folds are equivalent.

    Biography
    As of Feb 2006 I have started working as an assistant research fellow in Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

    Before that I worked as a postdoc researcher in the Programmable StructuredDocument project in Information Processing Lab, University of Tokyo. I graduated from the Algebra of Programming group in Oxford University, working with Prof. Richard Bird.

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    TIME Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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  • May
    29

    Computer Science End of Year Awards

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    2:30 PM Cohen Commons, Technological Institute

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    TIME Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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    CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Jun
    3

    MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Online Information Session

    MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Program

    7:00 PM

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    TIME Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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    CONTACT Svetlana Korzeniowski    msit@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Program