AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Efficient Arrangements of Convex Bodies, I
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Dan P. Ismailescu, Hofstra University ismailes@CIMS.nyu.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@auburn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The cardinality of a finite saturated packing of convex bodies in $E^d$.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (987-52-45)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lattice packings with a gap are not completely saturated.
  Greg Kuperberg, UC-Davis
  Krystyna Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
  (987-52-86)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On an area inequality related to Tarski's plank problem.
  Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL
  (987-52-159)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cyclic polytopes,hyperplanes and codes.
  T Bisztriczky*, U. of Calgary
  K. Boroczky, Jr., Renyi Institute
  D S Gunderson, U. of Manitoba
  (987-52-49)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Isohedral multiple tilings of the sphere and isohedral polyhedra related to them.
  Branko Gr�nbaum*, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
  (987-52-34)

Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Efficient Arrangements of Convex Bodies, II
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Dan P. Ismailescu, Hofstra University ismailes@CIMS.nyu.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@auburn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The symmetry of densest packings.
  Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
  (987-52-39)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Regular Production Systems and Aperiodicity in the Hyperbolic Plane.
  Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, Univ Arkansas
  (987-52-40)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Infinite packings of hyperbolic space through ergodic theory.
  Lewis P Bowen*, University of California, Davis
  (987-52-73)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture in Euclidean and spherical spaces.
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
  K�roly Bezdek, E�tv�s University
  (987-52-114)

Sunday May 4, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Efficient Arrangements of Convex Bodies, III
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Dan P. Ismailescu, Hofstra University ismailes@CIMS.nyu.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@auburn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Kneser-Poulsen conjecture for bounded hyperbolic convex polyhedra.
  Karoly Bezdek*, Cornell University, Dept. of Math., Ithaca NY
  (987-52-112)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The bottleneck conjecture.
  Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
  (987-52-129)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Polytopal Generalization of Sperner's coloring Lemma.
  Jesus A De Loera*, Univ. of California, Davis
  Elisha Peterson, Univ. of Maryland
  Francis E. Su, Harvey Mudd College
  (987-52-37)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Upper bounds for generalized touching numbers of convex bodies.
  Istvan Talata*, Eotvos University, Budapest
  (987-52-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sphere Packing in Hyperbolic Space.
  Henry Cohn*, Microsoft Research
  Thomas Hales, University of Pittsburgh
  Jacob Lurie, MIT
  Peter Sarnak, Princeton
  (987-52-161)

Sunday May 4, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Efficient Arrangements of Convex Bodies, IV
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Dan P. Ismailescu, Hofstra University ismailes@CIMS.nyu.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@auburn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Large transversals to families of unit disks.
  T Bisztriczky, University of Calgary, Canada
  F Fodor*, University of Szeged, Hungary
  D Oliveros-Braniff, University of Calgary, Canada
  (987-52-62)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyperbolic Regular Polygons with Notched Edges -- A Classification of Tilers.
  Casey Mann*, University of Texas at Tyler
  (987-52-76)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Number of Cylinders Touching a Ball.
  Dan P Ismailescu*, Hofstra University
  (987-52-173)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Covering a Strip by Unit Circles.
  G\'abor Fejes T\'oth*, Alfr\'ed R\'enyi Mathematical Institute
  (987-52-157)

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