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Speaker: Prof. Károly Bezdek, from Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

Time: Tuesday, July 10, 2001; 2:30 PM to 3:30.

Place: Malott 224

Title: One sided Hadwiger numbers

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Speaker: Prof. Károly Bezdek, from Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

Time: Tuesday, July 17, 2001; 2:30 PM to 3:30.

Place: Malott 224

Title: On the contact number of finite packings of translates of convex bodies.

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Speaker: Prof. Veit Elser, Cornell Department of Physics

Time: Tuesday, July 24, 2001; 2:30 PM to 3:30.

Place: Malott 224

Title: Fun with fundamental domains

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Speaker: Prof. Joseph Zaks, from the University of Haifa, Isreal

Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2001; 2:30 PM to 3:30.

Place: Malott 224

Title: The Beckman-Quarles Theorem for rational spaces

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Speaker: Prof. Mike Todd, Cornell Department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Time: Thursday, August 9, 2001; 2:30 PM to 3:30. (NOTE CHANGE FROM TUESDAY TO THURSDAY.)

Place: Malott 224

Title: The Optimal Dissection of Simplces

Abstract: How can you "optimally" dissect simplices, so that their diameters shrink at the fastest rate? Here, an n-simplex is dissected by choosing any point of the simplex; it then splits into from 1 to n+1 simplices, its children, with each the convex hull of the new point and n of the vertices of its parent. In 1 dimension, bisection is optimal. We will give bounds and near optimal schemes for general n.

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Speaker:  Prof. Bob Connelly

Time: Tuesday, August 14, 2001; 2:30 PM to 3:30.

Place: Malott 224

Title:  The Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture in the Plane

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