Fall Southeastern Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 20, 2012 17:36:31

Associate secretaries:

Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Saturday October 13, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Approximation Theory, Geometric Modelling, and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 115, Newcomb Hall
Organizers:
Henry Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schenck@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  What Ideal Projectors are limits of Lagrange Projectors.
  Boris Shekhtman*, University of South Florida
  (1083-41-125)
- 9:30 a.m.
  From Splines Approximation to Roth's Equation and Schur Functors.
  Jan Minac, The University of Western Ontario
  Stefan O Tohaneanu*, The University of Western Ontario
  (1083-41-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Local Dimension of $C^2$ Tetrahedral Splines.
  Jimmy Shan*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1083-14-77)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Computation of dimensions of multivariate spline spaces via Hilbert polynomials and Hilbert series.
  Simon Foucart, Drexel University
  Tatyana Sorokina*, Towson University
  (1083-41-06)

Saturday October 13, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Approximation Theory, Geometric Modelling, and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 115, Newcomb Hall
Organizers:
Henry Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schenck@math.uiuc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Torsion of the symmetric algebra and images of rational maps.
  Marc Chardin*, CNRS & UPMC
  (1083-14-207)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Shellability and Freeness of Continuous Splines.
  Michael R DiPasquale*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1083-13-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Syzygies and Singularities of Tensor Product Surfaces of Bidegree $(2, 1)$.
  Hal Schenck, University of Illinois
  Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska
  Javid Validashti*, University of Illinois
  (1083-13-137)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Wachspress Varieties.
  Corey Irving*, Santa Clara University
  (1083-14-136)