American Mathematical Society
Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Binghamton, NY, October 11-12, 2003
Special Session in "Topological Combinatorics"
Organizers:
Laura M. Anderson, Binghamton University
laura@math.binghamton.edu
Edward B. Swartz, Cornell University
ebs@math.cornell.edu.
Room 2, Lecture Hall
Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 9:00 a.m.
Shifted simplicial complexes and algebraic shifting.
Art M. Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
- 10:00 a.m.
Combinatorial Properties of Shifted Complexes.
Caroline J Klivans*, MSRI
- 10:30 a.m.
The Catalan matroid.
Federico Ardila*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- 2:30 p.m.
Stokes Theorem and the Minkowski Problem: A combinatorial perspective.
Daniel A Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- 3:00 p.m.
The homotopy types of Alexander duals.
Xun Dong*, University of Miami
- 3:30 p.m.
Reflexive polytopes in dimension 2 and 3: the numbers 12, 24, and onion skins.
Christian Haase*, Duke University
- 4:00 p.m.
(The category of?) CD manifolds.
Daniel K. Biss*, IAS & CMI
- 4:30 p.m.
Transversals and Configurations.
Luis Montejano*, National University of Mexico
Jorge Arocha, National University of Mexico
Javier Bracho, National University of Mexico
- 5:00 p.m.
On Configurations of flats; manifolds of points in the projective line.
Javier Bracho*, UNAM
Jorge Arocha, UNAM
Luis Montejano, UNAM
Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 8:00 a.m.
On the topology of multigraph picture spaces.
Jeremy L Martin*, University of Minnesota
- 8:30 a.m.
Unfolding convex polyhedral manifolds.
Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota
Igor Pak, MIT
- 9:00 a.m.
On face numbers of manifolds with symmetry.
Isabella Novik*, University of Washington
- 9:30 a.m.
Inequalities for the h-vector and flag h-vector of geometric lattices.
Ed Swartz, Cornell University
Kathryn Nyman*, Texas A&M University
- 10:00 a.m.
Angle Sums of Polytopes: A new proof of Perles' result.
Kristin A. Camenga*, Cornell University
- 10:30 a.m.
The angle defect for odd-dimensional simplicial manifolds.
Ethan D. Bloch*, Bard College
Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.