%0 Journal Article %T Recent progress on Favard length estimates for planar Cantor sets %A Izabella Laba %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %X This is an expository paper detailing some of the recent advances on the problem, with emphasis on the number-theoretic method developed in my paper with Bond and Volberg for rational product sets (arXiv:1109.1031). %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0247v1