AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2000 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lowell, MA, April 1-2, 2000
Meeting #952

• 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*, Università di Modena, Italy
    (952-52-104)