AMS :: Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Thursday, July 6, 2017 10:24:43

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Saturday March 11, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity Theory and Inversive Distance Circle Packings, I
Room 111, Maybank Hall
Organizers:
John C. Bowers, James Madison University bowersjc@jmu.edu
Philip L. Bowers, The Florida State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Configurations of circles: beyond packings.
  Kenneth Stephenson*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1126-51-327)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of frameworks: a survey.
  Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
  (1126-52-168)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The isostatic conjecture for circle packings.
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
  (1126-52-44)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Auxetics and convexity.
  Ciprian S. Borcea*, Rider University
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College
  (1126-52-165)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Minimal surfaces from deformations of circle patterns.
  Wai Yeung Lam*, Brown University
  Ulrich Pinkall, Technische Universitaet Berlin
  (1126-52-25)

Saturday March 11, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity Theory and Inversive Distance Circle Packings, II
Room 111, Maybank Hall
Organizers:
John C. Bowers, James Madison University bowersjc@jmu.edu
Philip L. Bowers, The Florida State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Circle Packings on Complex Projective Surfaces.
  Ellie Dannenberg*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1126-57-119)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The geometry of circle space and the rigidity of circle frameworks.
  John C. Bowers, James Madison University
  Philip L. Bowers*, The Florida State University
  (1126-51-332)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Almost All c-Polyhedra are Rigid.
  John C. Bowers*, James Madison University
  Philip L. Bowers, The Florida State University
  Kevin Pratt, University of Connecticut
  (1126-52-319)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discrete uniformization via hyper-ideal circle patterns.
  Alexander I. Bobenko, Technische Universität Berlin
  Nikolay D. Dimitrov*, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  Stefan Sechelmann, Technische Universität Berlin
  (1126-51-100)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Applications of the Brooks Parameter.
  G. Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
  (1126-30-351)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Combinatorial methods in discrete conformal geometry.
  William Wood*, University of Northern Iowa
  (1126-52-338)