2014 Conference
General Information
During the spring of 2014, Sixth Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference is organized by the Department of Mathematics of The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC). This event is being held from April 9 to April 12, 2014 on South Padre Island. The conference is a unique opportunity for geometry and combinatorics researchers to meet, share their specialized knowledge and learn from others.
Conference Poster
Download the 2014 Conference Poster
Organizing Committee
- Mikhail Bouniaev
- Alexey Glazyrin
- Jerzy Mogilski
- Oleg Musin
Speakers
- András Bezdek (Auburn University and Renyi Institute of Math, Budapest)
- Robert Connelly (Cornell University)
- Peter Dragnev (Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- Alexey Garber (Moscow State University)
- Włodzimierz Kuperberg (Auburn University)
- James Maissen (The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College)
- Wiktor Mogilski (Univeristy of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
- Luis Montejano (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Oleg Musin (The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College and IITP RAS)
- Hiroshi Nozaki (Aichi University of Education)
- Elena Poletaeva (The University of Texas - Pan American)
- Masashi Shinohara (Shiga University)
- Sho Suda (Aichi University of Education)
- Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State and Brown University)
Schedule
You can download the schedule of talks with all abstracts.| Wednesday, April 9, 2014 | ||
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Public lecture “Straight line motion with rigid sets” by Luis Montejano, El Gran Salon, Student Union, The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College | |
Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
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| 9:10 – 9:20 | Opening and Welcome | |
| 9:20 – 10:10 | Włodzimierz Kuperberg “Variations on the Hadwiger theme” | |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Sergei Tabachnikov “Circumcenter of Mass and the generalized Euler line” | |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Oleg Musin “Generalizations of Sperner, Tucker and Fan lemmas” | |
| 12:40 – 2:20 | Lunch break | |
| 2:20 – 3:10 | Robert Connelly “Periodic planar disk packings” | |
| 3:30 – 4:20 | Peter Dragnev “On the separation of optimal spherical configurations” | |
| 4:40 – 5:30 | Hiroshi Nozaki “A dual concept of spherical s-distance sets” | |
| 6:30 – 8:30 | Special dinner at Shrimp Haus | |
Friday, April 11, 2014 |
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| 9:20 – 10:10 | Luis Montejano “Fractional Turan theorems” | |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Alexey Garber “Another ham sandwich in the plane” | |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Masashi Shinohara “A new generalization of Ramsey number R(s; t)” | |
| 12:40 – 2:20 | Lunch break | |
| 2:20 – 3:10 | András Bezdek “Things I learned about infinite cylinders” | |
| 3:30 – 4:20 | Elena Poletaeva “On Kostant's Theorem for Lie superalgebras” | |
| 6:00 – 8:00 | Boat trip | |
Saturday, April 12, 2014 |
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| 9:20 – 10:10 | James Maissen “Extending group actions” | |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Sho Suda “Characterizations of (almost) tight complex two codes” | |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Wiktor Mogilski “The fattened Davis complex and weighted L2-(co)homology of Coxeter groups” | |