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 Discrete Geometry, I
Room 402, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  On lattice coverings with triangles.
  Istv\'an Talata*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (952-52-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some new triangulations of the sphere.
  Robert J Dawson*, St. Mary's University
  (952-52-110)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An Infinite Family of Prototiles with Heesch Number 5.
  Casey Mann*, University of Arkansas
  (952-52-176)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Equivalence and difference for covers on the $n$-cube.
  Deborah S. Franzblau*, CUNY, College of Staten Island
  George Xenakis, CUNY, College of Staten Island
  (952-05-155)

Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, II
Room 402, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Recent Results on Untangling Unknots in Space.
  Godfried T. Toussaint*, McGill University
  (952-52-174)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Knitting Problem.
  Herman Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (952-52-177)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Bootstrap Percolation of Convex Defects.
  Mikhail Menshikov, Moscow State University and the University of Sao Paulo
  Konstantin Rybnikov*, Cornell University
  Stanislav Volkov, EURANDOM, the Netherlands
  (952-52-168)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Counting parallel redrawings of equatorial polytopes.
  Ethan D. Bolker*, University of Massachusetts - Boston
  Victor W. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (952-52-92)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Symmetric degree of freedom 1 frameworks.
  Brigette Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (952-52-178)

Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, III
Room 402, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Locally unitary groups generated by involutory reflections.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (952-51-123)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs.
  Robert Connelly, Cornell University
  Erik D Demaine*, University of Waterloo
  G\"unter Rote, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
  (952-52-139)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Polygonal oriented matroids.
  Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
  (952-52-167)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unified Model for the Classical Geometries with Geometric Algebra.
  Timothy F. Havel*, Harvard Medical School
  (952-52-175)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rigidity Theory Applied to Network Glasses and Proteins.
  Michael F Thorpe*, Michigan State University
  (952-82-169)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constraining Plane Configurations in CAD: Circles, Lines and Angles.
  Franco V Saliola*, York University
  Walter J Whiteley, York University
  (952-52-156)

Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, IV
Room 402, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Plane geometric constraints: angles on lines.
  Melissa Bousfield, Toronto, Ontario
  Katherine Coulthard, Sutton District High School
  Linh Duong, Toronto, Ontario
  David Moskovitz, University of Toronto
  Walter J. Whiteley*, York University
  (952-52-146)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Voronoi zonotopes and Delaunay dicings.
  Robert Erdahl*, Queen's University
  (952-52-172)

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