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Brigitte Servatius
Brigitte Servatius
Mathematical Sciences
Professor
Affiliated with: 
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Education: 
PhD Syracuse University 1987

I pose this question: if I dip a wire cage of a cube into soap bubbles, can I get a hexagon? These are questions I love posing to my students. Likewise, I appreciate all questions my students ask me, regardless of how ridiculous they may seem. Every question is worth asking and investigating, and WPI encourages this innovative way of thinking.

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+1-508-831-5361
+1-508-831-5241
bservat@wpi.edu
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Research Interests

Research Interests: 
Rigidity of Graphs
Tensegrities
Motions of Molecules

Scholarly Work

On the two-dimensional generic rigidity matroid and its dual - 1991
Construction of self-dual graphs. - 1992
Abstract and generic rigidity in the plane - 1994
Graphs, digraphs, and the rigidity of grids - 1995
Connectivity and planarity of Cayley graphs. - 1998
Configurations from a graphical viewpoint - 2013
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