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The Coxeter Legacy
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REVISED SCHEDULEAll the invited talks will be held in the Earth Sciences auditorium (room 1050) - enter off 5 Bancroft. (Map) |
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| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration (with Coffee and Refreshments) |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | John Bland, Chair, Department of
Mathematics, University of Toronto, Opening Remarks William Moser, Introductory Remarks |
| Morning Session: William Moser, Chair | |
| 9:15 - 10:15 | John Conway, Princeton University Fabulous Groups |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Bertram Kostant, MIT The McKay correspondence, the Coxeter Element and representation theory |
| 11:30 -12:20 | Michel Broué, Université Paris
VII Coxeter like presentations for complex reflection groups |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Break for lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Contributed Talks (click to see session details) |
| Afternoon session: Mike Lorimer, Chair | |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Ken Davidson, Director, Fields Institute Opening Remarks |
| 3:15 - 4:05 | Mark Ronan, University of Illinois at Chicago Buildings and their Classification |
| 4:15 -5:05 |
Ravi Vakil, Stanford University |
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments |
| Morning Session: Arthur Sherk, Chair | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Peter McMullen, University College
London Regular polytopes of full rank |
| 10:00-10:50 | Asia Ivic Weiss, York University Polytopes, honeycombs, groups and graphs |
| 11:00-11:50 | Egon Schulte, Northeastern University Chiral Polyhedra in Ordinary Space |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Break for lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Contributed Talks (click to see session details) |
| Afternoon Session: Asia Ivic Weiss, Chair | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 | Branko Grünbaum, University of Washington Perspectives on configurations and polyhedra |
| 4:00 - 4:50 | Jörg Wills, University of Siegen Polyhedral Manifolds; Symmetry and Minimality |
| Friday, May 14, 2003 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments |
| Morning Session: Branko Grünbaum, Chair | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Marjorie Senechal, Smith College Donald and the Golden Rhombohedra |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Robert Moody, University of Alberta Non-crystallographic Coxeter Groups and Quasicrystals |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Ruth Kellerhals, University of Fribourg Aspects of hyperbolic space forms |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Break for lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Contributed Talks (click to see session details) |
| Afternoon Session: Ravi Vakil, Chair | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 |
Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Technische Universität
München |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Concert at the Fields Institute |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Reception at the Faculty Club |
| 7:00 | Banquet at the Faculty Club |
| Saturday, May 15, 2003 | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments |
| Morning Session: Erich Ellers, Chair | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | J.E. Humphreys, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst The unifying role of Coxeter groups in representation theory |
| 10:00 -10:50 | Alexandre Borovik, UMIST Coxeter matroids |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Bernhard Mühlherr, Université Libre
de Bruxelles On the isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Break for lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Contributed Talks (click to see session details) |
| Afternoon Session: Peter McMullen, Chair | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 |
Askold Khovanskii, University of Toronto |
| 4:00 - 4:50 | Mikhail Kapranov, University of Toronto Floer homology in algebraic geometry |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Public LectureMichele Emmer, Universita di RomaThe Visual Mind: Math, Art, Cinema Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College Coxeter and the Artists: two-way inspiration |
| Sunday, May 16, 2003 | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Coffee and Refreshments |
| Morning Session: Chandler Davis, Chair | |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Neil J. A. Sloane, AT&T Shannon
Labs Nonclassical Codes and Their Associated Lattices |
| 11:00 -11:50 | Greg Kuperberg, University of California at
Davis Numerical cubature from geometry and coding theory |