Schedule of sessions

Thursday,
May 4:
  (Models, Books, Photographs on display in Friedrick Center room 453)
Reception 7-9:30 PM, 9th floor lounge of Van Vleck Hall  
Friday,
May 5:
   
Invited Address 8:30-9:30, Friedrick Center
room 154
Greg Fredrickson, Purdue University, "Geometric Dissections That Swing And Twist"
Contributed Papers 9:45-10:45, Friedrick Center
room 154 
9:45-10:10: Yanxi Liu (Carnegie Mellon University): Frieze and Wallpaper Group Classification and Motif Generation From Real Images

10:15-10:40: Douglas Dunham (University of Minnesota at Duluth): A Unified Scheme for Repeating Patterns

Break 10:45-11:15  
Contributed Papers 11:15-12:15, Friedrick Center
room 154 
11:15-11:40: George Baloglou (SUNY at Oswego): Classroom Symmetries

11:45-12:10: Vince Matsko (Quincy University): Vertex-finite Tilings in Three Dimensions

Box Lunch 12:15-1:30, Friedrich Center
room 154
 
Contributed Papers 1:30-3:00, Friedrick Center
room 154 
1:30-1:55: Gary Ebert (University of Delaware): Replaceable Nests

2:00-2:25: Victor Piotrowski (U. of Wisconsin, Superior): Centroids in Convex Geometries

2:30-2:55: Norman Johnson (Wheaton College): Coxeter Subgroups of Coxeter Groups

Pre-Colloquium Coffee and Cookies 3:30-4:00, 9th floor lounge, Van Vleck Hall (NOTE DIFFERENT BUILDING!)
Colloquium 4:00-5:00, B239 Van Vleck Hall H.S.M. Coxeter (University of Toronto): Isohedra With Rhombic Or Rectangular Faces
Saturday,
May 6
  (Models, Books, Photographs on display in 901 Van Vleck Hall)
Invited Address 8:30-9:30, B239 Van Vleck Hall Sue Whitesides (McGill University): Geometry in Motion: a Survey of Linkage Movement
Contributed Papers 9:45-10:45, B239 Van Vleck Hall 9:45-10:10: Doris Schattschneider (Moravian College): A Pentagonal Challenge

10:15-10:40: Ellen Gethner (University of British Columbia): M.C. Escher: Computational Geometer and Graph Theorist Extraordinaire

Break 10:45-11:15, 9th floor lounge, Van Vleck Hall  
Contributed Papers 11:15-12:15, B239 Van Vleck Hall 11:15-11:40: David Flesner (Gettysburg College): The Klein Model in Dynamic Format

11:45-12:10: Leroy Dickey (University of Waterloo): Pappus and a Family of Conics

Lunch 12:15-1:30, 9th floor lounge, Van Vleck Hall  
Invited Address 1:30-2:30 B239 Van Vleck Hall Chandler Davis (University of Toronto): Wavelet Systems Which Respect Symmetry Groups
Contributed Papers 2:45-3:45, B239 Van Vleck Hall 2:45-3:10: Phillip Straffin (Beloit College): Sona Geometry

3:15-3:40: Darrah Chavey (Beloit College): Symmetries in the Geometrical Diagrams of Malekula

Break 3:45-4:15, 9th floor lounge, Van Vleck Hall  
Contributed Papers 4:15-5:45, B239 Van Vleck Hall 4:15-4:40: Chaim Goodman-Strauss (University of Arkansas): Compass and Straightedge Constructions in the Poincare Disk

4:45-5:10: Jay Kappraff (New Jersey Institute of Technology): The Relationship Between the Pythagorean Musical Scale and Theories of Proportion as Seen Through the Arithmetic of Nichomachus.

5:15-5:40: Peter Hamburger (Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne): Pretty Drawings

Banquet 7:15-9:30, 9th floor lounge, Van Vleck Hall Solomon Garfunkel (COMAP) banquet speaker
Sunday,
May 7
   
Contributed Papers 8:45-9:45, B239 Van Vleck Hall 8:45-9:10: Robert Dawson (St. Mary's University): Some New Tilings of the Sphere with Congruent Triangles

9:15-9:40: Shea Zellweger (Mount Union College): Symmetry and the Importance of a Shape Value Notation

Break 9:45-10:05, 9th floor lounge, Van Vleck Hall  
Contributed Papers 10:05-11:30, B239 Van Vleck Hall 10:05-10:30: R.B. Esterle (Architect, Inventor): Dynamic Polystring Transformahedra

10:35-11:00: Janusz Kapusta (Brooklyn, New York): The Circle, the Square, and the Golden Proportion

11:05-11:30: Joseph Malkevitch (York College (CUNY)): Convex 3-polytopes with Isosceles Triangle Faces

Unsolved Problems and further discussion 11:30-12:00, B239 Van Vleck Hall (Conference ends at noon)

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