AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

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

Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, I
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Five spheres in mutual contact
  Harold S. M. Coxeter*, University of Toronto
  (924-05-202)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On regular vertices of the union of planar shapes
  Boris Aronov*, Brooklyn Poly
  (924-52-212)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sylvester's question: the probability that $n$ points are in convex position
  Imre B\'ar\'any*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  (924-52-260)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The area and perimeter of an intersection of disks
  Marshall W. Bern*, Xerox PARC
  David Eppstein,
  (924-52-140)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On 0ptimal Route Planning in the $3$-Dimensional Space
  Andr\'as Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
  (924-52-257)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the strong dodecahedral conjecture
  K\'aroly Bezdek*,
  (924-52-223)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Symmetric Tensegrities--A Catalog
  Allen Back, Cornell University
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
  (924-52-178)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, II
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rhombic isohedra and rectangle-faced isohedra
  Branko Gr\"unbaum*, University of Washington
  (924-52-48)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The shape of a 3D point set
  Nina Amenta*, University of Texas at Austin
  Marshall Bern, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
  (924-68-263)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The multiplicity of small distances among points
  Gyorgy Csizmadia*,
  (924-52-64)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Illumination and exposition of a convex $n$-body depending on its sharpness
  Boris V. Dekster*, Mount Allison University
  (924-52-09)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The {\bf cd}-index of zonotopes and hyperplane arrangements
  Richard Ehrenborg*, Cornell University
  (924-05-179)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, III
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City Collge, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On Some Problems in Combinatorial Geometry
  Zolt\'an F\"uredi*, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
  (924-52-313)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Packing and covering the cube with equal balls.
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*,
  (924-52-239)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Pure Quasicrystals
  Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Labs - Research
  (924-52-254)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An application of combinatorial convexity to a problem of visual processing.
  Ted Lewis*, University of Alberta
  Balder Von Hohenbalken, University of Alberta
  (924-52-199)
- 4:30 p.m.
  New applications of the Regularity Lemma
  Janos Pach*,
  (924-52-220)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the Visibility Graph of Convex Translates
  David Rappaport*, Queen's University
  (924-52-109)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, IV
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Mixing Rate of the Triangulation Walk.
  Michael Molloy, University of Toronto
  Bruce Reed, CNRS
  William Steiger*, Rutgers University
  (924-05-225)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Subdivision of a Rectangle into Polygons of Equal Area
  Mario Szegedy*, ATT Labs-Research
  (924-52-249)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The translative kissing number of tetrahedra is eighteen
  Istvan Talata*, Auburn University
  (924-52-234)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A generalization of the Erd\H os-Szekeres theorem to convex sets
  J\'anos Pach,
  G\'eza T\'oth*,
  (924-52-137)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constrained Facility Location
  Ferran Hurtado, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
  Vera Sacristan, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
  Godfried Toussaint*, McGill University
  (924-68-106)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, V
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Flipping Edges of Triangulations in Parallel
  Ferran Hurtado, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
  Marc Noy, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
  Jorge Urrutia*, University of Ottawa
  (924-05-261)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On constructing piecewise linear homeomorphisms, isomorphic triangulations and pairwise disjoint paths in the plane
  Rephael Wenger*, The Ohio State University
  (924-57-169)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Independence of Geometric Constraints for CAD
  Walter J. Whiteley*, York University
  (924-52-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Configurations of Moving Points
  Naixun Pei, McGill University
  Sue Whitesides*, McGill University
  (924-68-311)

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