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The Coxeter Legacy
Reflections and Projections

May 12-16, 2004
to be held at the University of Toronto

SCHEDULE OF CONTRIBUTED TALKS

Contributed talks - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 (view abstracts)
Session A
2:00 - 2:20 Walter Whiteley, York University
Transferring Rigidity - Among Geometries and Dimensions
2:30 - 2:50 Ted Bisztriczky,University of Calgary
Characterizations of cyclic polytopes
Session B
2:00 - 2:20 Robert Erdahl, Queen's University
Delaunay Supertopes
2:30 - 2:50 Kostya Rybnikov, UMASS, Lowell
Face-structure of Locally-Convex Hypersurfaces
Session C
2:00 - 2:20 Frettlöh, Dirk (Univ. Greifswald, Germany)
Symmetries of hyperbolic tilings in higher dimensions
2:30 - 2:50 Norman W. Johnson, Wheaton College
Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups
Contributed talks - Thursday, May 13, 2004 (view abstracts)
Session A
2:00 - 2:20 Isabel Hubard, York University
Self-dual chiral polytopes
2:30 - 2:50 Barry Monson, University of New Brunswick
The Gray Graph and Polytopes of Type {3, 6, 3}
Session B
2:00 - 2:20 Leah Wrenn Berman, Ursinus College
Even Astral Configurations
Session C
2:00 - 2:20 Robert Milson, Dalhouise University
Reflection quotients in Riemannian geometry. A geometric converse to Chevalley's theorem
2:30 - 2:50 Wai Ling Yee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Affine Weyl Group and the Signature of the Shapovalov Form
Contributed talks - Friday, May 14, 2004 (view abstracts)
Session A
2:00 - 2:20 Joseph Malkevitch, York College (CUNY)
Convex Polytopes with Isosceles Triangle Faces
2:30 - 2:50 Andrei Ordine, Queen's University
Proof of the Voronoi conjecture on parallelohedra in a new special case
Session B
2:00 - 2:20 Georg Hofmann, TU Darmstadt
Characterization of Coxeter Systems by Reflections on the Cayley Graph
2:30 - 2:50 Gary Gordon, Lafayette College
Matroids associated with Coxeter groups
Session C
2:00 - 2:20 Dana S. Scott, Carnegie Mellon University
Duality in Projective Geometry
2:30 - 2:50 R. Padmanabhan, University of Manitoba
Group Representations of Finite Planes
Contributed talks - Saturday, May 15, 2004 (view abstracts)
Session A
2:00 - 2:20 Anna Lubiw and Masud Hasan, University of Waterloo
Equiprojective Polyhedra
2:30 - 2:50 Gordon Williams, Moravian College
Petrie Polygons and Petrie Schemes
Session B
2:00 - 2:20 Erich Ellers, University of Toronto
Intersection of conjugacy classes in Chevalley groups
2:30 - 2:50 Marcelo P. de Oliveira, University of Toronto
Hermitian presentations of Chevalley groups

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