Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, January 18, 2013 00:31:56

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA
January 9-12, 2013 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1086

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Thursday January 10, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Discrete and Computational Geometry, I (a Mathematics Research Communities session)
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Emilie Hogan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Elizabeth Munch, Duke University emunch@math.duke.edu
  Louis Theran, Freie Universität
  Russ Thompson, Texas A&M University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK ADDED: An introduction to Euler Calculus, Robert Ghrist, Departments of Mathematics and Electrical/Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.
  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Topology, Geometry and Statistics: Merging Methods for Data Analysis.
    John L Harer*, Duke University
    (1086-57-832)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Probability measures on the space of persistence diagrams.
    Yuriy Mileyko*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
    Katharine Turner, University of Chicago
    John Harer, Duke University
    (1086-55-1789)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Method for Collapsing Loops in Reeb Graphs of Noisy Data.
    Eric Hanson*, Colorado State University
    Elizabeth Munch, Duke University
    Russ Thompson, Texas A&M University
    (1086-54-1688)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Features Reconstruction Gets Help From Unlikely Sources: Graph Laplacian and Reeb Graph.
    Issam I. Safa*, Ohio State University
    (1086-52-1464)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Triangulation problems.
    Igor Pak*, Los Angeles
    (1086-52-560)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Tetrahedron Contact Graphs.
    Md. Jawaherul Alam*, University of Arizona
    James R. Ashe, University of Tennessee
    Michael Dobbins, KAIST
    Muriel Dulieu, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Justin Iwerks, Stony Brook University
    (1086-52-2058)
• Thursday January 10, 2013, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Discrete and Computational Geometry, II (a Mathematics Research Communities session)
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Emilie Hogan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Elizabeth Munch, Duke University emunch@math.duke.edu
  Louis Theran, Freie Universität
  Russ Thompson, Texas A&M University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Shearing, twisting and geodesics on polygon surfaces.
    Diana Davis*, Brown University
    (1086-51-424)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Vertex Isoperimetric Inequalities for a Family of Graphs on $\mathbb{Z}^k$.
    Ellen Veomett*, Saint Mary's College of California
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1086-52-376)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transforming Curves on Surfaces Redux.
    Jeff Erickson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1086-57-1949)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generic rigidity for frameworks with symmetry.
    Justin Malestein*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Louis Theran, Freie Universitat Berlin
    (1086-52-2291)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Undecidable tiling problems.
    Jed Yang*, UCLA
    (1086-05-1404)