**************************************************************** SCHEDULE FOR SPECIAL SESSION: Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics **************************************************************** SATURDAY ************************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: Saturday Morning (Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building) 8:00 1033-52-239 Sinai Robins A solid angle theory for real polytopes 8:30 1033-90-61 Gabor Pataki Fibonacci Numbers, Basis Reduction, and Integer Programming. 9:00 1033-05-215 John Shareshian Inversion arrangements and the Bruhat order 9:30 1033-14-223 Jason R Morton Relations among conditional probabilities 10:00 1033-62-137 Mathias Drton Likelihood ratio tests and singularities 10:30 1033-52-162 Peter McKinley Huggins Polyhedral geometry for univeristy ranking data ************************************************************************** Invited Address (Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building) 11:05-11:55 1033-37-03 Sergei Tabachnikov Ubiquitous billiards ************************************************************************** LUNCH ************************************************************************** Invited Address (Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building) 1:30-2:20 1033-20-01 Daniel Nakano Bridging algebra and geometry via cohomology ************************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: Saturday Afternoon (Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building) 2:30 1033-05-54 Matthias Beck Generating Functions of Rational Polyhedra and Dedekind-Carlitz Polynomials. 3:00 1033-52-109 Benjamin J. Braun $h^*$-Vectors for Lattice Polytopes 3:30 1033-05-211 Karen S Briggs Combinatorial Proofs of Various $q$-Pell Identities via Tilings 4:00 Break (FOR DISCUSSIONS) 4:30 1033-05-49 Seth Sullivant The combinatorics of treks 5:00 1033-52-50 Antoine Deza Polytopes and Arrangements: Diameter and Curvature. ************************************************************************** SUNDAY ************************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: Sunday Morning (Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building) 8:00 1033-05-70 Margaret A. Readdy Affine and toric hyperplane arrangements 8:30 1033-05-132 Gabor Hetyei Bernoulli type games and combinatorial enumeration. 9:00 1033-52-59 Thomas Zaslavsky On the division of space by topological hyperplanes 9:30 1033-05-225 Sarah K Mason Compositions and skew tableaux 10:00 1033-05-130 Nicholas A Loehr Quantum Lattice Paths and Bijective Subtraction. 10:30 1033-52-202 Carlos M. Nicolas Upper bounds for the number of polygons in the minimum convex subdivisions of points in the plane. ************************************************************************** Invited Address (Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building) 11:05-11:55 1033-37-04 Sergey Gavrilets Mathematical models of speciation ************************************************************************** LUNCH ************************************************************************** Invited Address (Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building) 1:30-2:20 1033-05-02 Carla Savage The mathematics of lecture hall partitions ************************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: Sunday Afternoon (Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building) 2:30 1033-05-34 Ruriko Yoshida Markov Bases for Two-way Subtable Sum Problems 3:00 1033-52-210 Scott Provan On Finding Pipes and Cables: The Opaque Cover Problem. 3:30 1033-05-252 Alexander Burstein Combinatorial properties of permutation tableaux 4:00 1033-05-58 Mark A. Shattuck Some Statistics on Linear and Circular $r$-Mino Arrangements **************************************************************************