Mathematikgebäude E23

New ideas about the type of random tessellation which evolves through successive division of its cells are given. The talk develops these ideas in an intuitive way, with many pictures and only a modicum of mathematical formalism -- so that the wide application of the ideas is clearly apparent. A vast number of new tessellation models, with known probability distribution for the area of the typical cell, follow from the concepts presented. The ideas extend to R^d.

Prof. Dr. Richard Cowan

University of Sydney