Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:01:41

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Antonio, TX, January 12-15, 2006
Meeting #1014

• Friday January 13, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Convex and Discrete Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  Tibor Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Approximation of the Euclidean ball by polytopes.
    Carsten Schuett, University of Kiel, Germany
    Elisabeth Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1014-52-1025)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Relative isoperimetric inequality outside convex bodies.
    Mohammad Ghomi*, Georgia Tech
    Jaigyoung Choe, Seoul National University
    Manuel Ritore, University of Granada
    (1014-53-565)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A characterization of ellipsoids via illumination bodies.
    Alina Stancu*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (1014-52-791)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Central limit properties of convex bodies.
    Mark W Meckes*, Stanford University
    (1014-52-854)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Problem Session
  • 10:30 a.m.
    f-Vectors of Regular Triangulations.
    Laura J Schmidt*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    Carl Lee, University of Kentucky
    (1014-52-195)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Ball-Polytopes.
    K\'aroly Bezdek, University of Calgary
    Zsolt L\'angi, University of Calgary
    M\'arton Nasz\'odi, University of Calgary
    Peter Papez*, University of Calgary
    (1014-52-913)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On a conjecture of Ehrhart.
    Imre B\'ar\'any, R\'enyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Attila P\'or*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1014-52-1575)
• Friday January 13, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Convex and Discrete Geometry, II
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  Tibor Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Optimal configurations of $k$ congruent balls packed in a sphere in ${\mathbb R}^n$ $(k\le 2n)$.
    Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (1014-52-1114)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Colourful Hadwiger Transaversal Theorem.
    Luis Montejano*, University of Guerrero at Acapulco, Mexico
    (1014-52-1234)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Symmetric Delone subdivisions and their application.
    Achill Schuermann*, University of Magdeburg
    (1014-52-261)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Revisiting a problem of D. Ismailescu and R. Radoicic concerning dense point sets.
    Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University
    Gergely Ambrus, Auburn University
    (1014-52-1773)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Additive Discrete Geometry.
    Jozsef Solymosi*, University of British Columbia
    (1014-52-1172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Locating points in a sensor network, with distance information.
    Walter J. Whiteley*, York University, Toronto
    (1014-52-594)
• Saturday January 14, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Convex and Discrete Geometry, III
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  Tibor Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Determination of convex bodies by directed projection functions.
    Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
    Wolfgang Weil*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    (1014-52-1386)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Convex Bodies with Constant Projection Functions.
    Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
    Daniel Hug, Mathematisches Institut, Universit{\"a}t Freiburg
    (1014-52-1230)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the road between intersection bodies and polar projection bodies.
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1014-52-178)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Centroid bodies and comparison of volumes.
    Vladyslav Yaskin*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    Maryna Yaskina, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (1014-52-379)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-intersection bodies all of whose central sections are intersection bodies.
    Maryna Yaskina*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (1014-52-378)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    General measures of a convex body.
    Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
    (1014-52-748)