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 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)