AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc.
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Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, I
Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Minkowski sum of simplices and their flags.
  Geir Agnarsson*, George Mason University
  (1065-05-95)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher integrality conditions and volumes of slices.
  Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
  (1065-05-169)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some topics and notions from convexity extended to normed linear spaces.
  Horst Martini*, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
  (1065-52-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some combinatorial results for staircase visibility.
  Marilyn Breen*, University of Oklahoma
  (1065-52-13)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Interval decompositions of $k$-edges and applications.
  Carlos M. Nicolas*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  (1065-52-262)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Intrinsic volumes.
  Rick Vitale*, University of Connecticut
  (1065-52-194)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, II
Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
- 2:30 p.m.
  The set of packing and covering densities of convex disks.
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University, Alabama
  (1065-52-123)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cross-section measures and their applications in Minkowski spaces.
  Zokhrab Mustafaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  Horst Martini, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany
  (1065-52-12)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Helly Type theorems and intersection graphs, one nice relation.
  Deborah Oliveros*, Instituto de Matematicas, National University of Mexico, UNAM.
  (1065-52-14)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Regular Polyhedra of Index Two in Space.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (1065-51-102)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the maximal distance between convex bodies in ${\mathbb R}^n$.
  Márton Naszódi*, Eötvös University, Budapest
  (1065-52-07)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Convex surfaces with planar quadric sections.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (1065-52-06)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, III
Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Permutation Polytopes and Ehrhart Polynomials.
  Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
  Katherine Jones, University of California, Davis
  Mohamed Omar*, University of California, Davis
  (1065-52-245)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Tangent Cones and Regularity of Convex Sets.
  Mohammad Ghomi, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ralph Howard*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
  (1065-14-85)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Convexity and geometric measure theory.
  David George Caraballo*, Georgetown University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  (1065-52-188)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The T(5) Property of Families of Overlapping Unit Disks.
  T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
  K. Boroczky, Eotvos University
  A. Heppes, Renyi Institute
  (1065-52-83)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A measure of symmetry for convex sets and its application to moduli for minimal immersions of spheres.
  Gabor A Toth*, Rutgers University, Department of Mathematics
  (1065-52-40)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Thin covering of the sphere with various convex spherical sets.
  Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL and Rényi Institute, Hungary
  (1065-52-118)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, IV
Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Only Solid Spheres Admit a False Axis of Revolution.
  Efren Morales*, University of Guerrero
  Jesus Jeronimo, University of Guerrero
  Luis Montejano, National University of Mexico
  (1065-52-93)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Enumerating isodiametric and isoperimetric polygons.
  Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
  (1065-52-11)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Oriented matroids and intersection of simplices generated by a family of segments.
  Walter D Morris*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
  (1065-05-178)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convex subdivisions for point sets.
  Csaba D Toth*, University of Calgary
  (1065-05-175)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Near Cubes: A relatively simple family of simple relatives of the cube.
  James E. Mihalisin*, Meredith College
  (1065-52-222)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Intersections of Descending Sequences of Affinely Equivalent Polytopes.
  Jim Lawrence*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
  (1065-52-192)