AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 22, 2005 02:16:47

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Algorithms in Metric Spaces, I
Room 125, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
W. J. Bo Brinkman, Miami University brinkmwj@muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrib@muohio.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Recent developments in geometry and algorithms of metric spaces.
  Ravi Kumar*, Yahoo-Inc.
  (1010-68-142)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Embeddings and data stream algorithms.
  Piotr Indyk*, EECS, MIT
  (1010-68-130)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Embedding Bounded Bandwidth Graphs into $\ell_1$.
  Douglas Edmonds Carroll*, University of California, Los Angeles
  Adam Meyerson, University of California, Los Angeles
  Ashish Goel, Stanford University
  (1010-05-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Metric cotype.
  Manor Mendel*, California Institute of Technology
  Assaf Naor, Microsoft Research
  (1010-46-22)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:05 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Algorithms in Metric Spaces, II
Room 125, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
W. J. Bo Brinkman, Miami University brinkmwj@muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrib@muohio.edu
- 3:05 p.m.
  Non linear $p$ summing operators.
  Jeffrey D. Farmer, University of Northern Colorado
  William B. Johnson*, Texas A&M University
  (1010-52-131)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Coarse dimensions and partitions of unity.
  Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee
  (1010-54-92)
- 4:30 p.m.
  F\o lner type sequences and constructions of coarse embeddings.
  Piotr W Nowak*, Vanderbilt University
  (1010-46-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Extending Lipschitz maps into $C(K)$-spaces.
  Nigel J. Kalton*, University of Missouri
  (1010-46-53)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Recent developments in geometry and algorithms in metric spaces.
  James R. Lee*, CS, UC Berkeley
  (1010-68-141)

Sunday October 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Algorithms in Metric Spaces, III
Room 125, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
W. J. Bo Brinkman, Miami University brinkmwj@muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrib@muohio.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Coarse embeddings into a Hilbert space.
  William B. Johnson, Texas A&M University
  Nirina Lovasoa Randrianarivony*, University of Missouri -- Columbia
  (1010-46-94)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Improved Embeddings of Graph Metrics into Random spanning trees.
  Kedar Dhamdhere*, Google
  (1010-68-143)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Compression of uniform embeddings into Hilbert space.
  Nikolay Brodskiy*, University of Tennessee
  Dmitriy Sonkin, University of Virginia
  (1010-20-95)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Low Dimensional Embeddings of Series-Parallel Graphs into $\ell_1$.
  Bo Brinkman, Miami University
  Adriana Karagiozova*, Princeton University
  (1010-68-99)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fitting tree metrics: Hierarchical clustering and Phylogeny.
  Moses Charikar*, Princeton University
  Nir Ailon, Princeton University
  (1010-68-109)

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