AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, I
Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Triangles that tile the sphere: some new results.
  Robert J Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
  (957-52-293)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Matroidally rigid polytopes.
  Ted Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
  (957-51-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Separation in Totally-Sewn 4-Polytopes (Part 1).
  Wendy A Finbow-Singh*, University of Calgary
  Deborah Oliveros-Braniff, University of Calgary
  (957-52-264)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Separation in Totally-Sewn 4-Polytopes (Part 2).
  Wendy A Finbow-Singh, University of Calgary
  Deborah Oliveros-Braniff*, University of Calgary
  (957-52-263)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 11:00 a.m.
  Shapes that do well in covering, tiling and packing problems.
  T.Y. Lee*, University of Maryland
  Doug Szajda, University of Maryland
  (957-52-14)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, II
Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spaces of affine configurations of flats; their polyhedral structure.
  Javier Bracho*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  (957-52-317)
- 3:30 p.m.
  "Open Questions in Tiling".
  Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, University of Arkansas
  (957-52-310)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Minimal generically rigid subgraphs of grid-like triangulated tori.
  Camille C Mittermeier*, York University
  (957-52-284)
- 4:30 p.m.
  First-Order Rigidity in Cayley-Klein Geometries.
  Franco V Saliola*, York University
  Walter J Whiteley, York University
  (957-52-290)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Partial Extension of the Maxwell-Cremona Correspondence to Spatial Frameworks.
  Robert M Erdahl, Queen's
  Konstantin Rybnikov*, Cornell
  (957-52-318)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, III
Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Minimum-Turn Milling.
  Erik D Demaine*, University of Waterloo
  (957-52-300)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent Results on Reconfiguring Polygonal Chains in Space.
  Michael Soss, McGill University
  Godfried T Toussaint*, McGill University
  (957-51-257)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Flattening Polyhedra.
  Erik D Demaine, University of Waterloo
  Martin L Demaine, University of Waterloo
  Anna Lubiw*, University of Waterloo
  (957-52-292)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of pseudo-triangulations.
  Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
  (957-52-124)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Daisy Structure in Desarguesian Projective Planes.
  Gabriela Araujo-Pardo*, Instituto de Matematicas,UNAM.
  (957-05-72)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Priority Scheduling: an Application for the Permutahedron.
  Ethan D. Bolker*, University of Massachusetts - Boston
  (957-52-207)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, IV
Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
- 2:00 p.m.
  Colored Frieze Patterns.
  Heidi L Burgiel*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  John H Conway, Princeton University
  Chaim Goodman-Strauss, University of Arkansas
  (957-52-266)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symmetric Tessellations on Euclidean Space-forms.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (957-51-273)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A structure theorem for Voronoi polytopes for lattices.
  Robert Erdahl*, Queen's University
  (957-52-324)

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