Workshop on Rigidity

October 11 - 14, 2011, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Description

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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
09:15 to 09:30	Welcome and Introduction Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	How do we Generate Finite Motions for Generically Rigid Graphs? Walter Whiteley, York University Location:
14:00 to 14:30	Rooted-tree decompositions and the infitesimal rigidity of frameworks with boundaries Shin-ichi Tanigawa, The University of Tokyo Location:
14:30 to 15:00	Rigid ball-polyhedra in Euclidean 3-space Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:00	Better Estimates of 3D rigidity Jialong Cheng, University of Florida, Meera Sitharam, University of Florida Location:
16:00 to 16:30	To hold a convex body by a circle Hiroshi Maehara (RIED Tokai University) Location:

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Geometric Sensitivity of Rigid Graphs Tibor Jordan, ELTE Eotvos University Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Characterizing Generic Global Rigidity Steven Gortler, Harvard University Location:
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:00	The rigidity transition in random graphs Louis Theran, University of St Andrews Location:
14:00 to 14:30	Rigid two-dimensional frameworks with two coincident points Viktoria Kaszanitzky, Eotvos Lorand University Location:
14:30 to 15:00	Coffee Break
15:00 to 15:30	Characterizing minimal generic rigid in d-dimensional space Andras Recski Location:
15:30 to 16:00	On the Universal rigidity of bar frameworks in general position Abdo Alfakih, University of Windsor Location:
16:00 to 16:30	Break
16:30 to 17:30	Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:
18:00 to 19:30	Reception

Thursday, October 13th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Isostatic Graphs and Semi-simplical Maps Henry Crapo, EHESS Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Linkage Folding: From Erdos to Proteins Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:30	Topics in rigidity theory from the aspect of Assur Graph Offer Shai, Tel Aviv University Location:
14:30 to 15:00	Pin merging in planar body frameworks Rudi Penne, University of Antwerp Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:00	Numerical Analysis and Navigation of Robot Linkage Configuation Lluis Ros, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial Location:
16:00 to 16:30	Cayley configuration spaces of 1-degree-of-freedrom linkages M. Wang (University of Florida) Location:
16:30 to 17:00	On the flexibility of Kokotsakis meshes Helmuth Stachel, TU Vienna Location:

Friday, October 14th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Body-and-cad rigidity theory Audrey St. John, Mount Holyoke College Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Geometric Puzzles: Algorithms and Complexity Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:30	Packings of Equal Circles on Flat Tori William Dickinson, Grand Valley State University Location:
14:30 to 15:00	The number of 2-dimensional complex realisations of a rigid graph Bill Jackson, Queen Mary University of London Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:00	The Brahmahupta's theorem after Coxeter Alexander Mednykh, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics Location:
16:00 to 16:30	Reconfiguration of Graph Drawings Anna Lubiw, University of Waterloo Location:

Robert Connelly - Cornell University

Tibor Jordan - ELTE Eotvos University

Ileana Streinu - Smith College

Walter Whiteley - York University