AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, I
Room 116, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 8:00 a.m.
  Equivalent Mechanisms and Configuration Spaces.
  Servatius Herman*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1050-05-54)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Periodic Rigidity.
  Elissa Ross*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
  (1050-52-71)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symmetry as a sufficient condition for a finite flex.
  Bernd Schulze*, York University
  (1050-52-52)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Body-and-cad geometric constraint systems.
  Kirk Haller, SolidWorks Corporation
  Audrey Lee-St.John*, Mount Holyoke College
  Meera Sitharam, University of Florida
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College
  Neil White, University of Florida
  (1050-51-82)
- 10:00 a.m.
  If you can hide behind it, can you hide inside it?
  Daniel A Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (1050-52-84)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Global Rigidity.
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
  Walter J Whiteley, York University
  (1050-52-40)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, II
Room 116, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 3:00 p.m.
  Growth of Homogeneous Planar Tessellations.
  Stephen S. Graves, Syracuse University
  Mark E. Watkins*, Syracuse University
  (1050-05-76)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Number of Spanning Trees a Planar Graph Can Have.
  Andre Schulz*, Smith College
  Kevin Buchin, TU Eindhoven
  (1050-05-70)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Flattening single-vertex origami: the non-expansive case.
  Gaiane Panina, Institute for Informatics and Automation, StPetersburg, Russia
  Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
  (1050-52-78)
- 4:30 p.m.
  What makes Materials Flexible or Rigid?
  Michael F Thorpe*, Arizona State University
  (1050-51-56)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A catalog of self-dual plane graphs with maximum degree 4.
  Jack E Graver*, Syracuse University
  Elizabeth J Hartung, Syracuse University
  (1050-05-51)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Remarkable Delaunay Polytopes derived from the Leech lattice.
  Konstantin Rybnikov*, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
  (1050-52-174)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, III
Room 116, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 8:00 a.m.
  Polygonal Complexes and Symmetry.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  Daniel Pellicer, University of New Brunswick
  (1050-51-81)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Highly Incident Configurations.
  Leah Wrenn Berman*, Ursinus College
  (1050-52-66)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cobinatorial structure of chiral polyhedra in the Euclidean space.
  Daniel Pellicer*, University of New Brunswick
  Asia I. Weiss, York University
  (1050-52-47)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quotient representations for uniform tilings.
  Gordon Iam Williams*, Ursinus College
  (1050-52-86)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Representable Matroids With Large Planes.
  Sandra Kingan*, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  (1050-05-55)
- 10:30 a.m.
  More on the $11$-cell.
  Barry Monson*, University of New Brunswick
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
  Daniel Hay, University of New Brunswick
  (1050-51-45)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
Room 116, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 3:00 p.m.
  Another Look at Matching Rules.
  Marjorie Senechal*, Smith College
  (1050-52-75)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Torohedral groups.
  Norman W. Johnson*, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
  (1050-52-74)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Tiling lattices with translates of sublattices.
  David Feldman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  James Propp*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  Sinai Robins, Nanyang Technological University
  (1050-05-79)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polarity and rigidity in the plane.
  Brigitte Servatius*, WPI
  (1050-05-53)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Some new Čebyšev sets in hyperspaces.
  Robert J. MacG. Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
  (1050-51-95)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Theory and examples of ghost symmetry.
  David Richter*, Western Michigan University
  (1050-52-08)

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