AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:51

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W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday October 12, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Tilings, I
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some unsolved tiling problems.
  Doris Schattschneider*, Moravian College
  (868-51-106)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Periodic tiling and how to compute them.
  D. H. Huson*, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  (868-51-65)
- 9:00 a.m.
  How do matching rules work?
  Joshua E. S. Socolar*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
  (868-05-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Matching rules for quasiperiodic tilings: Topological approach.
  Andr\'e Katz*, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  Leonid S. Levitov, Institute for Theoretical Physics, USSR and Massachusetts Institute on Technology
  (868-52-145)

Saturday October 12, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Tilings, II
- 1:45 p.m.
  Golden isozonohedra, indiscrete regular tessellations, and quasicrystals.
  H. S. M. Coxeter*, University of Toronto
  (868-51-43)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Regular maps constructed from linear groups.
  Peter McMullen, University College of London, England
  Barry Monson, University of New Brunswick
  Asia Ivi\'c Weiss*, York University
  (868-51-76)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Monotypic tilings.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (868-52-77)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Self-similar tiles with one tile.
  Karlheinz Grochenig*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (868-52-67)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Matching conditions for, and minor modifications of, the 2-tile rhomboid set in 3-space.
  Robert Ammann*, Billerica, Massachusetts
  (868-52-181)

Sunday October 13, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Tilings, III
- 8:00 a.m.
  Penrose tilings, crystals and dynamical systems.
  Charles Radin*, University of Texas, Austin
  (868-47-39)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Tilings, orbifolds, and symmetry.
  John H. Conway*, Princeton University
  (868-51-105)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An elementary proof of two triangle-tiling theorems of Conway and Lagarias.
  Donald C. West*, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh
  (868-05-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Classification of self-dual tilings.
  Walter Stromquist*, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Paoli, Pennsylvania
  (868-51-68)

Sunday October 13, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
Special Session on Tilings, IV
- 1:45 p.m.
  Some results on semiregular tessellations of the hyperbolic plane.
  Douglas J. Dunham*, University of Minnesota, Duluth
  (868-52-146)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Balance of tilings in the hyperbolic plane.
  Judith Flagg Moran*, Trinity College
  (868-05-100)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Cube tilings, graphs, and simulation.
  S\'andor Szab\'o*, University of the Pacific
  (868-51-120)

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