AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:12

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Friday April 8, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, I
Room 721, Rogers Hall
- 1:00 p.m.
  A new class of convex polytopes.
  Tibor Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
  (892-52-12)
- 1:30 p.m.
  A convex n-body with a smooth belt can be illuminated by n+1 directions.
  Boris V. Dekster*, Mount Allison University
  (892-52-02)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Convex bodies with similar projections.
  R. J. Gardner*, Western Washington University
  A. Vol\v ci\v c, University of Trieste, Italy
  (892-52-208)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Projections on the sphere and centrally symmetric sets.
  Paul Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
  Hermann Fallert, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  Wolfgang Weil, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  (892-52-154)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Santalo and Blaschke-Steinhardt point of a convex region.
  Mark Kaiser*, Auburn University, Auburn
  (892-52-141)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Star measures and dual mixed volumes.
  Daniel A. Klain*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (892-52-209)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, II
Room 204, Rogers Hall
- 9:30 a.m.
  Acyclic sections of fiber bundles and acyclic support sets.
  Luis Montejano*, University Nacional A. de Mexico, Mexico
  E. V. Shchepin, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russia
  (892-52-41)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Volume approximation of convex bodies by polytopes - A constructive method.
  Yehoram Gordon, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  Shlomo Reisner*, University of Haifa, Israel
  Mathieu Meyer, University of Paris, France
  (892-52-228)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Minkowski's inequality for bodies with corners and edges.
  J. R. Sangwine-Yager*, Saint Mary's College
  (892-52-32)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, III
Room 204, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  A new proof of Petty's projection inequality.
  Michael Schmuckenschlaeger*, University of Kiel, Germany
  (892-52-207)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Best asymptotic approximation of smooth convex bodies by polytopes.
  Rolf Schneider*, Mathematisches Institut der Albert Ludwigs Universit\"at, Germany
  (892-52-99)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Random polytopes.
  Carsten Sch\"utt*, Oklahoma State University
  (892-52-09)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Affine invariant evolutions of planar curves.
  Allen Tannenbaum*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (892-52-216)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The divergence theorem in Minkowski spaces.
  A. A. Thompson, Array Systems Computing Incorporated, Canada
  A. C. Thompson*, Dalhousie University
  (892-52-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantitative Steiner/Schwartz-type symmetrizations.
  Antonis Tsolomitis*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (892-52-95)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, IV
Room 204, Rogers Hall
- 9:30 a.m.
  Gaussian measure and convexity.
  Richard A. Vitale*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (892-52-152)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Central sections of intersection bodies.
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  Hermann Fallert, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  Wolfgang Weil*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  (892-52-74)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Illumination bodies and affine surface area.
  Elisabeth Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
  (892-52-17)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, V
Room 204, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  Dual kinematic formulas.
  Gaoyong Zhang*, Temple University, Philadelphia
  (892-52-29)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Analytic and geometric isoperimetric inequalities.
  Xin-Min Zhang*, University of South Alabama
  Hsu-Tung Ku, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Mei-Chin Ku, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (892-51-31)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The isoperimetric inequality and analogues of Hadwiger's theorem in space.
  Jiazu Zhou*, Temple University, Philadelphia
  (892-53-14)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Redirecting and reshaping laser beams with Monge-Ampere equations.
  Vladimir Oliker*, Emory University
  (892-53-56)

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