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Tenth Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences

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Alexey Garber
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Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
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2016 Conference

General Information

During the spring of 2016, Eighth Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference is organized by the School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. This event is being held from May 4 to May 6, 2016 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.

The conference is supported by NSF.

Conference Poster

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2016 Conference Poster

Organizing Committee

  • Mikhail Bouniaev
  • Alexey Garber
  • Alexey Glazyrin
  • Jerzy Mogilski
  • Oleg Musin

Participants

  • Károly Bezdek (University of Calgary)
  • Anton Dochtermann (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Art Duval (The University of Texas at El Paso)
  • Alexey Garber (UTRGV)
  • Alexey Glazyrin (UTRGV)
  • Sergey Grigorian (UTRGV)
  • Matthew Haulmark (University of Wisconsin-Milwakee)
  • Timothy Huber (UTRGV)
  • Brandt Kronholm (UTRGV)
  • Włodzimierz Kuperberg (Auburn University)
  • Jerzy Mogilski (UTRGV)
  • Oleg Musin (UTRGV)
  • Christopher O'Neill (Texas A&M University)
  • Virgil Pierce (UTRGV)
  • Elena Poletaeva (UTRGV)
  • Charles Radin (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Lorenzo Sadun (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Pablo Soberón (Northeastern University)
  • Vladimir Vershinin (University of Montpellier)
  • Cristina Villalobos (UTRGV)
  • Jacob White (UTRGV)
  • Timo de Wolff (Texas A&M University)
  • Wei-Hsuan Yu (Michigan State University)

UTRGV students:

  • Jovanna Garza
  • Jose Lamas
  • Armando Leon
  • Irma Lozoya
  • Luis Moreira
  • Eduardo Ramirez
  • Erika Rodriguez
  • Stephanie Ruiz
  • Hilario Salas
  • Virginia Sauceda
  • Bianca Tafolla
  • Juan Villela
  • Blanca Zuniga

Schedule

You can download the schedule of talks with all abstracts.


Wednesday, May 4, 2016
9:25 – 9:30 Opening and Welcome
9:30 – 10:15 Charles Radin “Rigidity of many-component systems”
10:25 – 11:10 Art Duval “A non-partitionable Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complex”
11:20 – 12:05 Timo de Wolff “New Certificates for Nonnegativity via Circuit Polynomials and Geometric Programming”
12:05 – 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 – 2:45 Włodzimierz Kuperberg “Double-lattice packings revisited – recent developments”
2:55 – 3:40 Anton Dochtermann “Warmth and edge spaces of graphs”
3:40 – 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 – 4:45 Christopher O'Neill “Shifting numerical monoids”
4:55 – 5:40 Wei-Hsuan Yu “Recent progress on equiangular lines”

Thursday, May 5, 2016
9:30 – 10:15 Vladimir Vershinin “Braids and homotopy groups of spheres”
10:25 – 11:10 Károly Bezdek “On non-separable families of positive homothetic convex bodies”
11:20 – 12:05 Brandt Kronholm “A Supercrank for P(n,3) modulo Primes of the form 6j-1”
12:05 – 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 – 2:45 Lorenzo Sadun “Bipodal random graphs above Erdos-Renyi”
2:55 – 3:40 Timothy Huber “McKay-Thompson series and high level approximations for ϖ”
3:40 – 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 – 4:45 Jacob White “Ehrhart-Hilbert polynomials arising from combinatorial Hopf monoids”
4:55 – 5:40 Pablo Soberón “Quantitative and colorful combinatorial geometry”

Friday, May 6, 2016
9:30 – 10:15 Elena Poletaeva “On pyramids, Yangians and finite W-algebras”
10:25 – 11:10 Matthew Haulmark “Boundaries of CAT(0) Groups with Isolated Flats and The Kapovich-Kleiner Theorem”
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break
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