Sphere Packing: From Kepler to E8 — A Deep Dive into Dense Arrangements

Join us as we trace the history of sphere packing, from Kepler's 1611 conjecture and Gauss's lattice results to Hales's computer-assisted proof, and explore Maryna Viazovska's breakthroughs in eight and twenty-four dimensions. We'll unpack close-packed structures (FCC and HCP), simpler lattices, jammed and random packings, and the surprising connections to coding theory and materials science.

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