Due April 26. Due May 3. Instead of having a final exam, we can have the students report on some work that is related to rigidity. Here are a few suggestions. I. SIAM J. Appl.
Rigidity theory can say some non-trivial things about the number of facets of a convex polytope.
Rings of molecules in chemistry can be described with the help of the theory of rigid and flexible frameworks. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 184. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998. I have some notes that explain it. See page 247.