COSAM News Articles 2016 March Three-Day Workshop on Discrete and Intuitive Geometry

Three-Day Workshop on Discrete and Intuitive Geometry

Published: 03/03/2016

In addition to discussions and short talks, two one-hour talks are scheduled for our faculty, graduate students and participants of the graduate student seminar:

Scientific program. Please note that these talks are informal, 20-30 min long, except those two which are scheduled for grad students and general Faculty (marked by *). The short talks will end with some open problems, which will lead to a half our long discussions.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

9:00-9:30 PKH 328 Andras Bezdek: On special polygons inscribed in Jordan curves
11:00-11:30 PKH 322 Alexey Garber: Boundaries of centrally symmetric polygons
11:30-12:00 PKH 322 Alexey Glazyrin: On some new open problems
13:00-13:30 PKH 350 Ferenc Fodor: Covering number of zones on the sphere
*16:00- 16:50 PKH 250 Oleg Musin: Selected open problems in discrete geometry

Time and place: 4:00 pm Tuesday, March 8 in 250 Parker Hall

Refreshments at 3:30 pm in Parker 244

Speaker: Deborah Oliveros, Math. Inst. of UNAM, University of Maxico

Title: On colorful and fractional versions of Helly's theorem

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

9:00-9:30 PKH 318 W. Kuperberg: On circumscribed polygons of convex sets
10:00-10:30 PKH 350 Ted Bisztriczky: On anti transversals
10:30-11:00 PKH 350 Liping Yuan: TBA
*15:00-15:50 PKH 249 Deborah Oliveros: On some colorful versions of Helly’s theorem

Time and place: 3:00 pm Wednesday, March 9 in 249 Parker Hall

Refreshments at 2:30 pm in Parker 244

Speaker: Oleg Musin, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)

Title: On selected open problems in Discrete Geometry

Discrete and intuitive geometry cover a wide range of problems of various areas including convexity, the theory of packing, covering and tiling, computational geometry, rigidity theory, and the geometry of numbers and crystallography. Discrete geometry investigates combinatorial and analytic properties of configurations of geometric objects. Intuitive geometry investigates geometry problems that have an intuitive appeal; however, the solutions of these problems are usually very intricate and require tools from many areas.

More details will be provided by Dr. Andras Bezdek via email. Please contact Dr. Bezdek if you have questions. Feel free to circulate this information to anyone who may be interested.