AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, November 20, 2015 11:26:24

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday November 14, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics of Polytopes, I
Room 115, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Asia Ivi\'c Weiss, York University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Hereditary Polytopes.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (1115-51-188)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Proof of Khovanskii's Theorem on Geometry of a Sumset and Its Convex Hull.
  Jaewoo Lee*, The City University of New York (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
  (1115-05-37)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Enumeration of five-dimensional Dirichlet-Voronoi parallelohedra.
  Mathieu Dutour Sikiri\'c, Rudjer Boskovi\'c Institute, Croatia
  Alexey Garber*, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Achill Sch\"urmann, University of Rostock, Germany
  Clara Waldmann, TU Munich, Germany
  (1115-52-346)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Polytopes of high rank for linear groups.
  Peter A Brooksbank*, Bucknell University
  (1115-05-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Convex Polytopes, Toric $g$-Vectors, and Gale Transforms.
  Carl W. Lee, University of Kentucky
  Sarah A. Nelson*, University of Kentucky
  (1115-52-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sections, Projections, and Shadow Boundaries.
  Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
  (1115-52-243)

Saturday November 14, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics of Polytopes, II
Room 115, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Asia Ivi\'c Weiss, York University
- 3:00 p.m.
  On spherical Reuleaux polytopes.
  Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
  (1115-52-371)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Chiral polytopes with alternating and symmetric automorphism groups.
  Marston Conder, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  Isabel Hubard, UNAM
  Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro*, UNAM
  Daniel Pellicer, UNAM
  (1115-05-349)
- 4:00 p.m.
  k-Orbit Convex Polytopes.
  Nicholas A Matteo*, York University
  (1115-52-387)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tight chiral polyhedra.
  Gabe Cunningham*, University of Massachusetts Boston
  (1115-05-57)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On convex bodies with congruent projections.
  Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
  (1115-52-92)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Linked Neighbourly 4-polytopes.
  T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
  (1115-52-124)

Sunday November 15, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics of Polytopes, III
Room 115, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
Asia Ivi\'c Weiss, York University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Hypertopes with diagrams of assigned shape.
  Dimitri Leemans*, University of Auckland
  (1115-51-197)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hypertopes of high rank for the symmetric group.
  Maria Elisa Fernandes*, Universidade de Aveiro
  Dimitri Leemans, Auckland University
  (1115-14-126)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The ranks for which Alt(n) acts as a string C-group.
  Mark D Mixer*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
  (1115-20-283)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rank 4 Regular Toroidal Hypertopes.
  Eric Ens*, York University
  (1115-52-309)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $q$-Stirling numbers: A new view.
  Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
  Yue Cai, University of Kentucky
  (1115-05-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Convex surfaces with planar polar sets and point-source shadow-boundaries.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (1115-52-102)