Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar

List of Talks given in 2003-04

Wednesday, September 17   Zokhrab Mustafaev, Ithaca College
On the surface area and volume of the unit ball in normed spaces
Wednesday, September 24   Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Embedding graphs in Euclidean space
Wednesday, October 1   Maria Sloughter, Cornell University
Rigidity questions related to the Kneser-Poulsen conjecture
Wednesday, October 8   Kristin Camenga, Cornell University
Angle sums of polytopes: a new proof of Perles' result
Wednesday, October 8   Drew Armstrong, Cornell University
A poset structure on multichains in the noncrossing partition lattice
Wednesday, November 5   Matthias Beck, MSRI
Coefficients and roots or Ehrhart polynomials
Wednesday, November 12   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
What is a matroid?
Wednesday, November 19   Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Locally most dense circle and ellipse packings
Wednesday, February 4   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
The h and flag h-vectors of geometric lattices
Wednesday, February 11   Zokhrab Mustafaev, Ithaca College
Convex bodies of constant width
Monday, February 16   Igor Pak, MIT
Unfoldings of convex polyhedra in many dimensions
Wednesday, February 25   Kristin Camenga, Cornell University
Characterizing inscribable polyhedra
Wednesday, March 3   Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Comments on generalized Heron polynomials and Robbins' conjectures
Wednesday, March 10   Carly Klivans, Cornell University
Combinatorial properties of shifted complexes
Wednesday, March 17   Tudor Zamfirescu, Dortmond, Germany
Around the cut locus
Wednesday, March 31   Federico Ardila, MSRI
The Bergman complex of a matroid and phylogenetic trees
Wednesday, April 7   Oleg Musin, MSRI
The kissing number in four dimensions
Wednesday, April 28   Hugh Thomas, Fields Institute, Toronto
Triangulations and non-crossing partitions in the classical types
Wednesday, May 5   Grigoriy Blekherman, University of Michigan
Convex geometry of orbits