AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:04

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, I
Room 2002, Downing Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  On sign-representable matroids.
  James Oxley*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  (881-05-204)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random packing of matroid bases.
  Safwan Akkari*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft.\ Wayne
  (881-05-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quaternary paving matroids.
  Sanjay Rajpal*, Dartmouth College
  (881-05-198)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent progress on matroid reconstruction.
  William P. Miller*, George Washington University
  (881-05-144)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rigidity matroids.
  Brigitte Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (881-05-187)

Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, II
Room 2002, Downing Hall
- 2:40 p.m.
  Connnecting characteristic and chromatic polynomials.
  Andreas Blass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University
  (881-52-136)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Sign-coherent identities for characteristic polynomials of matroids.
  Joseph P. S. Kung*, University of North Texas
  (881-05-49)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Greedoids and the Tutte polynomial.
  Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College
  (881-05-147)
- 4:10 p.m.
  An algorithmic view of Crapo's BETA-invariant.
  Lorenzo Traldi*, Lafayette College
  (881-05-126)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Ramsey numbers for matroids.
  Talmage Reid*, University of Mississippi
  (881-05-01)

Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, III
Room 105, Douglass Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  A poset of pseudoline arrangements.
  Walter D. Morris, Jr.*, George Mason University
  (881-90-22)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gram's relation inside out.
  Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
  (881-52-206)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lattices and geometry.
  M. K. Bennett*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (881-06-18)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Applications of combinatorial geometries in model theory.
  Kitty L. Holland*, Simon Fraser University
  (881-03-197)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Borsuk conjecture holds for convex bodies with a belt of regular points.
  Boris Dekster*, Mount Allison University
  (881-52-11)

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