AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 19, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, I
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Revisiting some tiling problems.
  Doris J. Schattschneider*, Moravian College
  (941-52-150)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Okumura's double tiling.
  John Rigby*, Cardiff University
  (941-51-149)

Friday March 19, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, II
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Patterns on a spherical surface.
  Magnus J. Wenninger*, none
  (941-51-79)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Variations of Uniform Polyhedra.
  Vincent J. Matsko*, Associate Professor
  (941-51-140)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Constructing polytopes that have a many-faceted projection.
  Steven W. Knox*, none
  (941-52-209)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cubing the Square: A Progress Report on the Rupert Problems.
  Gregory Huber*, University of Arizona
  (941-51-84)

Friday March 19, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, III
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
- 7:00 p.m.
  A philosophy of maximally enlightening proof, illustrated in the case of Feuerbach's Theorem.
  Douglas Hofstadter*, Indiana University
  (941-51-358)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, IV
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Enumerative Triangle Geometry.
  Clark H Kimberling*, University of Evansville
  (941-51-72)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Ajima-Malfatti problem.
  Peter Yff*, American University of Beirut
  (941-51-208)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Remarks on Triangles Inscribed in a Cubic Curve.
  Lawrence S. Evans*, none
  (941-51-118)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, V
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The geometry of the cardiac cycle.
  Dennis F. Cudia*, none
  (941-52-43)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The solution to the isoperimetric problem in 3-dimensional Minkowski space.
  Anthony C. Thompson*, Dalhousie University
  (941-52-49)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The smallest convex cover for triangles of perimeter two.
  Zoltan F\"uredi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  John E. Wetzel*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (941-52-207)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Planar Packings and Mappings related to Minmax Problems.
  Seon-Hong Kim*, University of Illinois
  (941-52-217)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Packing problems with congruent polygons.
  Heiko Harborth*, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  (941-52-211)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, VI
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
- 7:00 p.m.
  Convex illumination problems
  Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
  (941-51-232)
- 8:00 p.m.
  A Generalization of Post's Theorem.
  John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois
  (941-52-143)
- 8:30 p.m.
  Dynamic Geometry of Polygons.
  Richard L. Hitt, Univ. of South Alabama
  Xin-Min Zhang*, University of South Alabama
  (941-51-09)

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