Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Monday January 5, 2009, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry, I
  Balcony B, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    General affine surface areas.
    Monika Ludwig*, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    (1046-52-1252)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Finite Sets as Complements of Finite Unions of Convex Sets.
    Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
    Walter Morris*, George Mason University
    (1046-52-643)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Generalized Averages of Section and Projection Functions.
    Paul R. Goodey, University of Oklahoma
    Wolfgang Weil*, University of Karlsruhe
    (1046-52-586)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Orthogonal Chords in Minkowski Spaces.
    Javier Alonso, University of Extremadura, Spain
    Horst Martini, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany
    Zokhrab Mustafaev*, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
    (1046-52-192)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Special convex sets in normed linear spaces.
    Horst Martini*, University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
    (1046-52-151)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Outer linear measure of connected sets via Steiner trees.
    Konrad J Swanepoel*, Chemnitz University of Technology
    (1046-28-119)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Convex polytopes with abelian vertex-transitive symmetry.
    Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
    (1046-52-1257)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Class Preserving Dissections of Convex Polygons.
    Dan Ismailescu*, Hofstra University
    (1046-52-1692)
• Tuesday January 6, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry, II
  Balcony B, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Blocking numbers for $l_p$ balls in three dimensions.
    David G Larman*, University College London
    (1046-52-576)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On the Hadwiger numbers of topological disks.
    Zsolt Langi*, Budapest University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary
    (1046-52-608)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On partial coverings of convex bodies by planks.
    Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary
    (1046-52-1527)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Extremal Coin Graphs in the Euclidean Plane.
    Geir Agnarsson, George Mason University
    Jill Bigley Dunham*, George Mason University
    (1046-05-371)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Shortest path among circles.
    Gábor Fejes Tóth*, Rényi Institute, Budapest
    (1046-52-1143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Covering a Convex Set with Its Smaller Copies.
    Marton Naszodi*, University of Alberta
    (1046-52-1767)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a new proof of the Malfatti's problem.
    Andras Bezdek*, Auburn Univ and Renyi Inst. of the Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest, Hungary
    Jan P. Boronski, Auburn University
    Wesley Brown, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    Braxton Carrigan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    Matt Noble, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    (1046-52-1395)