AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:10

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

Saturday April 1, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, I
Room 404, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random polytopes of points chosen from the boundary of a convex set.
  Carsten H Schutt*, University of Kiel
  Elisabeth M Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  (952-52-10)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Affine surface area and polytopal approximation.
  K\'aroly B\"or\"oczky, Jr.*, R\'enyi Institute of Mathematics
  (952-52-27)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic expansions for the expected volume of the convex hull of random points.
  Christian Buchta*, University of Copenhagen
  (952-52-69)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Crofton's boundary theorem for the convex hull of random points.
  Matthias Reitzner*, Techn. Univ. Vienna, Austria
  (952-52-47)

Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, II
Room 404, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Analytic Continuation of Convex Bodies by Projection Areas.
  Eric L Grinberg*, Temple University
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University
  (952-52-158)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Strip Discrepancy for Nonatomic Colorings.
  Allen D. Rogers*, Elmhurst College
  (952-52-117)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A mass transport inequality for the smoothing of a convex set by Minkowski addition of a ball.
  Clayton Kerce*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (952-52-137)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Separoids, Oriented Matroids and the linearization problem.
  Javier Bracho*, University Nac. Autonoma de Mexico
  (952-52-179)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gaussian Processes and Intrinsic Volumes.
  Richard A Vitale*, University of Connecticut
  (952-52-49)

Sunday April 2, 2000, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, III
Room 404, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Intersection bodies and $L_p$-spaces.
  Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (952-52-17)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Random sections of a cube.
  Yossi Lonke*, Case Western Reserve University
  (952-52-99)

Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, IV
Room 404, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Upper semicontinuous valuations on the space of convex discs.
  Monika Ludwig*, University College London
  (952-52-71)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Looking for selectors of star bodies.
  Maria Moszynska*, Warsaw, Poland
  (952-52-08)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Invariant valuations on spherical star sets.
  Paolo Dulio, Politecnico di Milano
  Carla Peri*, Universita' Cattolica S. C. - Milano
  (952-52-33)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Projective center of symmetry.
  Luis Montejano*, University Nac. Autonoma de Mexico
  (952-52-180)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Continuous movements of convex bodies.
  Stefano Campi*, Universit� di Modena, Italy
  (952-52-104)

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