AMS :: 2024 Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 3, 2024 03:30:04

Saturday October 26, 2024, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Topological and Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, I
Room 1101, Gordon S. Watkins Hall
Organizers:
Zoe Wellner, Arizona State University zwellner@asu.edu
Zilin Jiang, Arizona State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Bárány-Kalai conjecture for certain families of polytopes
  Pablo Soberón, Baruch College, City University of New York
  Shira Zerbib*, Iowa State University
  (1201-52-39935)
- 9:30 a.m.
  CANCELLED: Matroid colorings of KKM covers
  Daniel A McGinnis*, Princeton University
  (1201-05-40338)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Colorful Borsuk--Ulam Theorems
  Florian Frick, Carnegie Mellon University
  Zoe Wellner*, Arizona State University
  (1201-52-41078)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sperner's lemma: two recent generalizations
  Francis Edward Su*, Harvey Mudd College
  (1201-52-41399)

Saturday October 26, 2024, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Topological and Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, II
Room 1101, Gordon S. Watkins Hall
Organizers:
Zoe Wellner, Arizona State University zwellner@asu.edu
Zilin Jiang, Arizona State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rainbow odd cycles
  Ron Aharoni, Technion
  Joseph Guy Briggs, Auburn University
  Ron Holzman, Technion
  Zilin Jiang*, Arizona State University
  (1201-05-39929)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyperplane-piercing numbers of families of sets in $R^d$ via $(p,2)$ property
  Florian Frick, Carnegie Mellon University
  Aliaksei Vasileuski*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1201-52-41491)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The transversal numbers of pure simplicial complexes, polytopes, and spheres
  Hailun Zheng*, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  (1201-05-38972)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Face Numbers of Shellable CW Balls and Spheres
  Joshua Hinman*, University of Washington
  (1201-52-40372)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Countable Borel equivalence relations, geometric dimension and quasi-trees
  Ruiyuan Chen, University of Michigan
  Antoine Poulin, McGill University
  Ran Tao*, Carnegie Mellon University
  Anush Tserunyan, McGill University
  (1201-03-40528)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Borel line graphs
  James Anderson, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Anton Bernshteyn*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1201-05-40965)

Sunday October 27, 2024, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Topological and Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, III
Room 1101, Gordon S. Watkins Hall
Organizers:
Zoe Wellner, Arizona State University zwellner@asu.edu
Zilin Jiang, Arizona State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Enumeration of intersection graphs of $x$-monotone curves
  Andrew Suk*, University of California, San Diego
  (1201-52-39234)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tight Bound on Joints Problem and Partial Shadow Problem
  Ting-Wei Chao*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1201-05-40083)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic bounds for fixed-strength spherical designs
  Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research New England
  Travis Dillon*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1201-52-40990)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Abelian Groups with 3-Chromatic Cayley Graphs
  Mike Krebs, California State University, Los Angeles
  Maya Sankar*, Stanford University
  (1201-05-41435)