AMS :: Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 14, 2015 03:30:12

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, I
Room 264, Reiss Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Mihalisin - Klee Theorem for Fans.
  Rachel E Locke, Mathematical Sciences Department, George Mason University
  Walter D Morris*, Mathematical Sciences Department, George Mason University
  (1107-05-88)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Low Dimensional Neighbourly Simplicial Polytopes.
  Wendy Finbow-Singh*, Saint Mary's University
  (1107-52-451)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Generalization of the Secondary Polytope Induced by Lifting and Deleting.
  Carl W. Lee*, University of Kentucky
  Clifford Taylor, University of Kentucky
  (1107-52-438)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Flip distances and Hamiltonian triangulations.
  Csaba D. Toth*, California State University, Northridge
  (1107-05-338)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Unimodality problems in Ehrhart theory.
  Benjamin Braun*, University of Kentucky
  (1107-05-302)
- 10:30 a.m.
  General permutahedra.
  Geir Agnarsson*, George Mason University
  (1107-05-215)

Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, II
Room 264, Reiss Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Ehrhart positivity for generalized permutohedra.
  Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
  Federico Castillo, University of California, Davis
  (1107-05-130)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Colorful Polytopes, Associahedra and Cyclohedra.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (1107-52-121)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Contractions of Polygons in Abstract Polytopes.
  Ilya Scheidwasser*, Northeastern University
  (1107-52-30)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Characterizations of Cyclic Polytopes.
  T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
  (1107-52-61)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chains of Antiprisms.
  Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
  (1107-52-416)

Sunday March 8, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, III
Room 264, Reiss Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Centered convex bodies and inequalities for cross-section measures.
  Zokhrab Mustafaev*, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  Horst Martini, Chemnitz University of Technology
  (1107-52-23)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dual Mean Minkowski Measures and the Grunbaum Conjecture.
  Gabor Toth*, Rutgers University - Camden
  Qi Guo, Suzhou University of Science and Technology
  (1107-52-179)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The covering index of convex bodies.
  Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary
  Muhammad Ali Khan, University of Calgary
  (1107-52-312)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Approximating convex disks from inside and out by parallelograms.
  András Bezdek, Auburn University
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (1107-52-452)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Total diameter and area of closed submanifolds.
  Mohammad Ghomi, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ralph Howard*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
  (1107-53-420)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some results on intangent spreads of convex bodies.
  Robert J. MacG. Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
  (1107-52-369)

Sunday March 8, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, IV
Room 264, Reiss Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Improved lower bounds for the chromatic number of several small dimensional Euclidean spaces.
  Dan Ismailescu*, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
  Geoffrey Exoo, Indiana State University
  (1107-52-475)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Convex hypersurfaces with hyperplanar intersections of their homothetic copies.
  V. Soltan*, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
  (1107-52-40)