AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 8, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Transversal Theory, I
Room 102, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute, New York University pollack@cims.nyu.edu
Jacob Eli Goodman, The City College of New York jgoodman@ccny.cuny.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting and Bounding the Number of Tangents to Four Objects in 3D.
  Herv{\'e} Br{\"o}nnimann*, Polytechnic University
  (1009-52-134)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The role of distance in Helly type transversal problems.
  A. Heppes*, Renyi Mathematical Institute, Budapest, Hungary
  (1009-52-37)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Transversal $m$-flats to $n$-dimensional convex sets and projective flats.
  Javier Bracho*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  (1009-52-164)

Saturday October 8, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Transversal Theory, II
Room 102, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute, New York University pollack@cims.nyu.edu
Jacob Eli Goodman, The City College of New York jgoodman@ccny.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Permutation Sequences and Pseudoline Arrangements, Old and New, Part I.
  Ricky Pollack*, Courant Institute/NYU
  (1009-52-76)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Permutation Sequences and Pseudoline Arrangements, Old and New, Part II.
  Jacob E. Goodman*, City College, CUNY
  (1009-52-53)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Interval Sequences and the Combinatorial Encoding of Planar Families of Convex Sets.
  Raghavan S Dhandapani*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
  Jacob Eli Goodman, City College, CUNY
  Andreas Holmsen, City College, CUNY
  Richard Pollack, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
  (1009-52-174)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A tiny problem on geometric permutations.
  Helge Tverberg*, University of Bergen, Norway
  (1009-52-191)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Transversal Theory, III
Room 102, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute, New York University pollack@cims.nyu.edu
Jacob Eli Goodman, The City College of New York jgoodman@ccny.cuny.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Topological Helly type theorems.
  Gil Kalai*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University
  (1009-52-116)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Recent progress on Geometric Permutations induced by lines transversal.
  Shakhar Smorodinsky*, Courant, NYU
  (1009-05-127)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Katchalski-Lewis transversal problem in ${\bf{R}}^d$.
  Andreas Holmsen*, University of Bergen, Norway
  (1009-52-122)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Shape Sensitive Geometric Permutations.
  Meir Katchaski, Technion, Haifa, Israel
  Subhash Suri, UC Santa Barbara
  Yunhong Zhou*, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
  (1009-52-103)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Transversal Theory, IV
Room 102, Hegeman Hall
Organizers:
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute, New York University pollack@cims.nyu.edu
Jacob Eli Goodman, The City College of New York jgoodman@ccny.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The convexity behind Santal\'o's Helley-type Theorem.
  J. Goodman, City College, NY
  A Holmsen, University of Bergen
  R Pollack, Courant Institute
  K Ranestad, University of Oslo
  F Sottile*, Texas A&M University
  (1009-52-38)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Line transversals to translates of unit discs.
  Jesus Jeronimo*, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas A. C.
  (1009-52-96)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pinning lines with smooth convex objects.
  Xavier Goaoc*, INRIA-Lorraine
  (1009-52-144)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Helly type theorems for line transversal of congruent balls.
  Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University
  (1009-52-156)

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