AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37

2006 Fall Central Section Meeting
Cincinnati, OH, October 21-22, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1020

• Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, I
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Face ring multiplicity via CM-connectivity sequences.
    Ed Swartz*, Cornell University
    Isabella Novik, University of Washington
    (1020-05-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Realizations of generalized associahedra.
    Carsten Lange*, FU Berlin
    Christophe Hohlweg, The Fields Institute
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
    (1020-52-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Flag arrangements and triangulations of products of simplices.
    Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University
    Sara Billey, University of Washington
    (1020-05-81)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Discrete Fundamental Group of the Order Complex of $B_n$.
    Helene Barcelo*, Arizona State University
    Shelly Smith, Grand Valley State University
    (1020-05-141)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, II
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Adornments and expanding flowers.
    Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
    Erik D. Demaine, MIT
    Martin L. Demaine, MIT
    S\'andor P. Fekete, TU Braunschweig
    Stefan Langerman, Univrsit\'e Libre de Bruxelles
    Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Stony Brook University
    Ares Rib\'o, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
    G\"unter Rote, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
    (1020-52-182)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Heat flow and a faster algorithm to compute the surface area of a convex body.
    Mikhail Belkin*, The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Hariharan Narayanan, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
    Partha Niyogi, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
    (1020-05-85)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gale and braxial polytopes.
    Margaret M Bayer*, University of Kansas
    Tibor Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
    (1020-52-211)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moebius inversion and combinatorial curvature.
    Jon McCammond*, University of California - Santa Barbara
    (1020-05-95)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, III
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Properties of the $\gamma$-vector, an angle analog of the $h$-vector.
    Kristin A Camenga*, Houghton College
    (1020-52-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized Degree Sequences.
    Caroline J. Klivans*, University of Chicago
    (1020-05-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inflating polyhedral surfaces.
    Igor Pak*, M.I.T.
    (1020-52-168)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The ${\bf cd}$-index of Gorenstein* lattices.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia
    (1020-05-216)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, IV
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for integer points in transportation polytopes.
    Alexander Barvinok*, University of Michigan
    (1020-05-98)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Inside-out polytopes.
    Matthias Beck*, San Francisco State University
    Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1020-05-39)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A convex ear decomposition for the coloring complex.
    Patricia Hersh*, Indiana University--Bloomington
    Ed Swartz, Cornell University
    (1020-05-100)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A simplicial matrix-tree theorem.
    Art M Duval, University of Texas at El Paso
    Caroline Klivans, University of Chicago
    Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
    (1020-05-92)