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2012 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
George Washington University, Washington, DC
March 17-18, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1080
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry
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Saturday March 17, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry, I
Room 207, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
One the unit ball and isoperimetrix in Minkowski spaces.
Zokhrab Mustafaev*, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
Horst Martini, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany
(1080-52-39) -
8:30 a.m.
On foams with convex cells each containing a unit ball.
Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary
(1080-52-259) -
9:00 a.m.
About piercing numbers of affine planes, lines and intervals.
Deborah Oliveros*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
(1080-52-194) -
9:30 a.m.
Characterization of Simplices via Measures of Symmetries.
Gabor Toth*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Camden
(1080-52-42) -
10:00 a.m.
Double normals in the plane and on the sphere.
Konrad J Swanepoel*, London School of Economics
(1080-52-216)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 17, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry, II
Room 207, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
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1:30 p.m.
Minsum $k$-flats and minsum hyperspheres in normed spaces.
Horst Martini*, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Technology
(1080-52-103) -
2:00 p.m.
Monotone spreads of compact convex sets.
Robert J. MacG. Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
(1080-52-161) -
2:30 p.m.
Small containers for large families of sets.
Andras Bezdek, Auburn University
Wlodzimierz Holsztynski, San Francisco, California
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University
(1080-52-184) -
3:00 p.m.
On the search of new affine invariants for convex bodies.
Alina Stancu*, Concordia University
(1080-52-183) -
3:30 p.m.
On properties of convex disc-polygons.
Ferenc Fodor*, Department of Geometry, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary
(1080-52-323) -
4:00 p.m.
Convex surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with hyperplanar shadow-boundaries.
Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
(1080-52-44)
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1:30 p.m.
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Sunday March 18, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry, III
Room 207, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Peaks and the cd-index.
Samuel K Hsiao*, Bard College
(1080-05-315) -
8:30 a.m.
The {\bf cd}-indices, $CD$-vectors, and $h$-vectors of convex polytopes.
Carl W. Lee*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
(1080-52-178) -
9:00 a.m.
Convex Sets in Empty Convex Position.
Gábor Fejes Tóth*, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(1080-52-280) -
9:30 a.m.
Symmetric Graphicahedra.
Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
(1080-52-139) -
10:00 a.m.
The T(5) Property of Families of Overlapping Unit Disks.
T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
K. Boroczky, Eotvos Lorand University
A. Heppes, Renyi Mathematics Institute
(1080-52-341) -
10:30 a.m.
Minimum Beam Detectors for Polygonal Regions.
Scott Provan*, University of North Carolina
Marcus Brazil, University of Melbourne
Doreen Thomas, University of Melbourne
Jia Weng, University of Melbourne
(1080-51-43)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday March 18, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry, IV
Room 207, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On fair partitions of polygons.
Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, Auburn, AL and Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
(1080-52-350) -
3:30 p.m.
Restrictions on linear isomorphisms between spaces of smooth functions on compact manifolds.
Geoff Diestel, Texas A&M University - Central Texas
Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
(1080-46-199) -
4:00 p.m.
A Surprising Geometric Transformation.
Dan P Ismailescu*, Hofstra University
(1080-52-342) -
4:30 p.m.
Hom-polytopes between regular polytopes.
J. Gubeladze, San Francisco State University
Jack Edward Love*, San Francisco State University
(1080-52-108) -
5:00 p.m.
Centrally symmetric polytopes with many faces.
Seung Jin Lee*, University of Michigan
Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
Isabella Novik, University of Washington
(1080-52-273) -
5:30 p.m.
When is the product of two Davis matrices a Davis matrix?
Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
(1080-52-247)
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3:00 p.m.
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