AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 21, 2007 00:32:16

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

Saturday April 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Sets, I
Room 222, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
David Larman, University College London
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stability results for convex bodies.
  Rolf Schneider*, University of Freiburg, Germany
  (1026-52-99)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Isometry invariant valuations on hyperbolic space.
  Daniel A. Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
  (1026-52-182)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bivaluations on Convex Bodies.
  Monika Ludwig*, Polytechnic University New York
  (1026-52-134)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Pairs of compact convex sets.
  Diethard Ernst Pallaschke*, Institute for Statistics and Math. Economics, University of Karlsruhe
  Ryszard Urbanski, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland
  (1026-52-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some applications of cross-section measures in Minkowski spaces.
  Horst Martini, University of Techology Chemnitz, Germany
  Zokhrab Mustafaev*, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  (1026-52-16)

Saturday April 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Sets, II
Room 222, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
David Larman, University College London
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Decomposition of multiple coverings into coverings.
  Janos Pach*, City College, CUNY, New York and Renyi Institute, Budapest
  Geza Toth, Renyi Institute
  (1026-52-91)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Distributing an infinite point sequence uniformly in a region.
  Peter Brass*, City College New York
  (1026-52-145)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the infinitesimal rigidity of weakly convex polyhedra.
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
  Jean-Marc Schlenker, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier
  (1026-52-163)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The moment theorem for convex sets.
  G\'abor Fejes T\'oth*, R\'enyi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  (1026-52-168)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Classification of bicyclic 4-polytopes.
  Ted Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
  (1026-52-128)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On iterative processes generating dense point sets.
  Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
  (1026-52-215)

Sunday April 15, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Sets, III
Room 222, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
David Larman, University College London
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Volume inequalities of $L_p$ projection bodies.
  Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University of New York
  Deane Yang, Polytechnic University of New York
  Gaoyong Zhang*, Polytechnic University of New York
  (1026-52-176)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Determining Symmetric Convex Bodies by the Perimeters of Their Central Sections.
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kansas State University
  Anamaria Rusu, University of South Carolina
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  (1026-52-93)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Weighted Projection Means of Convex Bodies.
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  Markus Kiderlen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Wolfgang Weil*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  (1026-52-169)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Slicing convex sets and measures by a hyperplane.
  Imre B\'ar\'any*, Renyi Institute (Hungary) and University College (London)
  Alfredo Hubard, UNAM, Mexico
  Jer\'onimo Jesus, Centro de Matematicas, Guanajuato, Mexico
  (1026-52-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the closedness of the linear image of a closed convex cone.
  Gabor Pataki*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1026-52-84)

Sunday April 15, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Sets, IV
Room 222, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
David Larman, University College London
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Radon-type results arising from McMullen's projective set problem.
  David G. Larman*, University College London
  Natalia Garcia-Colin, University College London
  (1026-52-205)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Characterizations of Ellipsoids by Sections.
  Javier Alonso*, University of Extremadura
  Pedro Martin, University of Extremadura
  (1026-52-58)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Combinatorial Multihedrality in Tilings.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (1026-52-125)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Evenly convexity.
  Margarita Rodr\'{i}guez \'{A}lvarez*, Department of Statistics and Operations Research. University of Alicante. Spain.
  Jos\'{e} Vicente P\'{e}rez, Department of Statistics and Operations Research. University of Alicante. Spain.
  (1026-90-170)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Characteristic properties of convex quadric surfaces.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (1026-52-31)

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