Minisymposium Discrete Geometry and Topology

im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 2008 in Erlangen.


Organisation: Frank Lutz, Achill Schürmann

Ort: Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, Raum 2.011


Programm

Donnerstag 18. September 2008

Zeit Thema VortragendeR
14:30 Packing, Energy Minimization, and Exceptional Structures Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research)
15:20 Conformal Equivalence of Triangle Meshes Boris Springborn (TU Berlin)
16:00 Computing Bounds on Polytope Diameters Using Oriented Matroids Lars Schewe (TU Darmstadt)
16:30 Infinite Families of Explicit Triangulations of Manifolds Wolfgang Kühnel (Uni Stuttgart)

Freitag 19. September 2008

Zeit Thema VortragendeR
14:30 Combinatorics and Curvature John Sullivan (TU Berlin)
15:20 Fourier Analysis, Linear Programming, and Distance Avoiding Sets Frank Vallentin (CWI Amsterdam)
16:00 Some New Techniques for Explicit Mixed Volume Computation Reinhard Steffens (Uni Frankfurt)
16:30 Generalized k-Center, Helly Numbers, and Core Sets Lucia Roth (TU München)
17:00 Splits of Convex Polytopes Sven Herrmann (TU Darmstadt)
17:30 Small Subset Sums of Unit Vectors in Normed Spaces Konrad Swanepoel (TU Chemnitz)

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