This talk is organised by the Warwick Mathematics Institute and is shared by Resonate.
Join Professor Ryan Martin (Iowa State University) for a free talk to understand the maths behind the theory that just about everyone in Hollywood is connected to Kevin Bacon.
The Kevin Bacon Game was invented in the 1990s and asked players to find the distance of any actor from Kevin Bacon. It’s based on the idea that at the time, Kevin Bacon was the centre of the (Hollywood) universe.
In this talk, Professor Ryan Martin will discuss how the game links to graph theory - a rich and well-studied discipline with a host of unsolved problems. Graph theory is used to model electrical and computer networks, molecular structures, particle interactions and popular culture.
