Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 17, 2015 03:30:11
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Discrete and Intuitive Geometry
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Saturday January 10, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Discrete and Intuitive Geometry, I
Room 007C, Convention Center
Organizers:
Andras Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
Ted Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
Wlodek Kuperberg, Auburn University
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8:00 a.m.
About the piercing number of boxes and beyond.
Deborah Oliveros*, Instituto de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM.
(1106-52-1676) -
8:30 a.m.
About an Erd{ö}s-Gr{ü}nbaum conjecture concerning piercing of non-bounded convex sets.
A. Montejano, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Luis Montejano*, National Autonomous University of Mexico
E. Roldán-Pensado, University of London
P. Soberón, University of London
(1106-52-1334) -
9:00 a.m.
On the total perimeter of disjoint convex bodies.
Arseniy V. Akopyan, The Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexey Glazyrin*, The University of Texas at Brownsville
(1106-52-424) -
9:30 a.m.
Bounds for outer parallel domains of unit ball packings.
Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary, Canada
Zsolt Langi, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
(1106-52-521) -
10:00 a.m.
Extreme point configurations on spheres and locally rigid contact graphs.
Oleg R Musin*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Brownsville
(1106-52-1114) -
10:30 a.m.
The packing density of the $n$-dimensional cross-polytope.
Gábor Fejes Tóth, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
Ferenc Fodor*, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary, and University of Szeged, Hungary
Viktor Vígh, University of Szeged, Hungary
(1106-52-2223)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday January 10, 2015, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Discrete and Intuitive Geometry, II
Room 007C, Convention Center
Organizers:
Andras Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
Ted Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
Wlodek Kuperberg, Auburn University
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2:15 p.m.
Polygonal Complexes and Nets.
Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
(1106-52-1508) -
2:45 p.m.
Discrete Equidecomposability and Period Collapse.
Paxton M Turner*, Louisiana State University
Yuhuai Wu, University of New Brunswick
(1106-52-647) -
3:15 p.m.
X-Raying 3-Dimensional Convex Bodies with Mirror Symmetry.
Ryan Gordon Trelford*, University of Calgary
(1106-52-2755) -
3:45 p.m.
Lattice Embeddings of Planar Point Sets.
Michael Knopf*, University of California, Berkeley
Jesse Milzman, Georgetown University
Derek Smith, Lafayette College
Dantong Zhu, Lafayette College
Dara Zirlin, Mount Holyoke College
(1106-51-1512) -
4:15 p.m.
A Number associated with a Hyperplane Arrangement in $R^d$ or a Graph.
Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
(1106-52-1563) -
4:45 p.m.
Extendability of Surface Triangulations.
Braxton Carrigan*, Southern Connecticut State University
(1106-52-684) -
5:15 p.m.
Deletion-Induced Triangulations.
Clifford Taylor*, University of Kentucky
Carl Lee, University of Kentucky
(1106-52-1166) -
5:45 p.m.
Sporadic Reinhardt polygons.
Kevin G. Hare, University of Waterloo
Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
(1106-52-1639)
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2:15 p.m.