AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 6, 2006 00:24:07

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

Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Aspects of Polytopes, I
Room 107, Business
Organizers:
Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University fardila@alum.mit.edu
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some Special Nonsimplicial Polytopes.
  Margaret M Bayer*, University of Kansas
  T Bisztriczky, The University of Calgary
  (1018-52-210)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Ehrhart polynomials of lattice-face polytopes.
  Fu Liu*, M.I.T.
  (1018-05-42)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Periods of Ehrhart quasi-polynomials.
  Kevin Woods*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1018-05-230)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tropical polytopes.
  Mike Develin*, American Institute of Mathematics
  Josephine Yu, UC-Berkeley
  (1018-05-106)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Newton polytopes of A-discriminants.
  Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Eva Maria Feichtner*, University of Stuttgart
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley
  (1018-14-192)

Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Aspects of Polytopes, II
Room 107, Business
Organizers:
Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University fardila@alum.mit.edu
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Minkowski Sums of Simplices - Preliminary Report.
  Geir Agnarsson, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
  Walter Morris*, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
  (1018-05-233)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Permutohedra reshaped.
  Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
  (1018-05-45)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Realizations of the associahedron and cyclohedron.
  Christophe Hohlweg, The Fields Institute
  Carsten E. M. C. Lange*, University of Washington
  (1018-05-198)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Title: Integer linear programming using differentiable Dedekind sums from analytic number theory.
  Sinai Robins*, Temple University
  Helaman Ferguson, Center for Communications Research
  (1018-52-143)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fundamental holes and saturation points of a commutative semigroup and their applications to contingency tables.
  Akimichi Takemura, University of Tokyo
  Ruriko Yoshida*, Duke University
  (1018-05-46)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A canonical form for polytopes and its algorithmic consequences.
  Jesus A. De Loera*, University of California, Davis
  Shmuel Onn, Technion- Haifa
  (1018-52-57)

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