AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Friday April 8, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, I
Room 705, Rogers Hall
- 1:00 p.m.
  A survey of problems concerning distance sums on spheres.
  Ralph Alexander*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (892-52-203)
- 1:30 p.m.
  Realizations of weighted graphs in Euclidean spaces.
  Alexander I. Barvinok*, Cornell University, Ithaca
  (892-52-43)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Finite and uniform stability of sphere packings and coverings.
  Andr\'as Bezdek*, Auburn University, Auburn
  Karoly Bezdek, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
  Robert Connelly, Cornell University, Ithaca
  (892-52-143)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Light-sources that illuminate the boundary points all but the vertices of a convex polytope.
  Karoly Bezdek*, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
  (892-52-242)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Toric h-vectors of Shellable cubical complexes.
  Clara S. Chan*, Institute for Defense Analyses
  (892-52-227)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On convex projections of polygons.
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University, Ithaca
  Beat Jaggi, University of Bern, Switzerland
  (892-52-123)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, II
Room 202, Rogers Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symmetrical combinations of 3 or 4 hollow triangles.
  H. S. M. Coxeter*, University of Toronto
  (892-51-33)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometry in the computer construction of school timetables.
  J. Csima*, McMaster University
  (892-52-167)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Are lattice arrangements optimal?
  G\'abor Fejes-T\'oth*, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary
  (892-52-215)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the best constant for the Besicovitch covering theorem.
  Zoltan F\"uredi*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (892-28-240)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, III
Room 202, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  Knotted lattice-like space fillers.
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University, Auburn
  (892-52-117)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Three problems on four-dimensional polytopes.
  G\"unter M. Ziegler*, Konrad-Zuse ZIB, Germany
  (892-52-55)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Gale transforms and triangulations.
  Carl Lee*, University of Kentucky
  (892-52-202)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Embedding a polytope in a lattice.
  Hiroshi Maehara*, Ryuyku University, Japan
  (892-52-52)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Oriented matroids and the birational geometry of toric varieties.
  Robert Morelli*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (892-52-257)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Voronoi inclusion-exclusion identities and inequalities.
  Daniel Q. Naiman*, Johns Hopkins University
  Henry P. Wynn, City University, London
  (892-55-198)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Bounding the number of geometric permutations induced by k-transversals.
  Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York
  Richard Pollack*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Rephael Wenger, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (892-52-22)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, IV
Room 202, Rogers Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometry of sphere packing in bold E^3.
  Igor Rivin*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (892-52-241)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Separating translates in the plane: Combinatorial bounds.
  Jurek Czyzowicz, University of Quebec at Hull
  Hazel Everett, University of Quebec at Montreal
  Jean-Marc Robert*, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi
  (892-52-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Chirality in abstract polytopes.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (892-51-135)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The tightest packings (or clusters) of N balls.
  N. J. A. Sloane*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  (892-51-98)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, V
Room 202, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  Different distances.
  Endre Szemer\'edi*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (892-51-230)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Polytopes related to the Picard group.
  B. Monson, University of New Brunswick
  Asia Ivi\'c Weiss*, York University
  (892-52-58)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On connected components of convex sets of lines in R^3.
  Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York
  Richard Pollack, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Rephael Wenger*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (892-52-36)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A new approach to packing and covering.
  Ulrich Betke, University of Siegen, Germany
  Martin Henke, University of Siegen, Germany
  J\"org M. Wills*, University of Siegen, Germany
  (892-52-35)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polytopes that fill R^n and scissors congruences.
  Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  David Moews, University of California, Berkeley
  (892-52-13)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Foundations of the polytope algebra.
  Peter McMullen*, University College London, United Kingdom
  (892-52-210)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Parallel drawings and dimensioning plane diagrams in CAD.
  Walter Whiteley*, York University
  John Owen, D-CUBED Limited, Cambridge, England
  (892-52-59)

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