AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:41

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry, I
Room 246, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Andr\'as Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@mail.auburn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the number of empty lattice simplices
  Imre B\'ar\'any*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  Jean--Michel Kantor,
  (926-52-215)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Surface Area of Voronoi Polyhedra in Lattice (unit)Sphere Packings in $E^3$
  K\'aroly Bezdek*, E\"otv\"os University, Budapest, Hungary
  (926-52-98)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalizing cyclic polytopes
  Tibor Bisztriczky*, The University of Calgary
  (926-52-79)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Lattice k--planes and the convex hull of lattice points in a smooth body
  Imre B\'ar\'any,
  K\'aroly B\"or\"oczky, Jr.*, Math. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci.
  Imre Z. Ruzsa,
  (926-52-221)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Minimal translation covers for sets of diameter one
  Karoly Bezdek, Eotvos University
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
  (926-52-258)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Some Theorems on Strictly Ordered but Aperiodic Structures in Euclidean Spaces
  Ludwig W Danzer*,
  (926-52-228)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry, II
Room 246, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Andr\'as Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@mail.auburn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Covering the greatest part of a convex disc by congruent circles
  G\'abor Fejes T\'oth*,
  (926-52-223)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On Some Problems and Results in Combinatorial Geometry.
  Zolt\'an F\"uredi*, University of Illinois, Urbana, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
  (926-52-295)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sphere Packings, V
  Samuel P Ferguson*,
  (926-51-196)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Computers and Sphere Packings
  Thomas C Hales*, University of Michigan
  (926-52-287)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Minimum limited snakes
  Heiko Harborth*, Technische Universit\"at Braunschweig
  (926-52-58)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Gr\"unbaum--Dress Polyhedra
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (926-51-118)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry, III
Room 246, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Andr\'as Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@mail.auburn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometry of polygons
  Branko Gr\"unbaum*, University of Washington
  (926-51-115)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Loose Ends in Knot Theory.
  Jeffrey C Lagarias*, AT&T Labs-Research
  (926-57-213)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The construction of Grassmannian packings and quantum codes from orthogonal geometry.
  Neil J. A. Sloane*, AT&T Labs-Research
  (926-51-290)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Exponential lower bound for the translative kissing numbers of $d$-dimensional convex bodies
  Istvan Talata*, Department of Mathematics, Auburn University
  (926-52-218)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Sphere Packings, Crystal and Quasicrystal Growth
  Wills M. Joerg*,
  (926-52-81)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Critical points on convex surfaces
  Tudor Zamfirescu*, University of Dortmund
  (926-52-146)

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