Organizing Committee:
Asia Ivić Weiss (chair), York University, Canada

Marston Conder, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Antoine Deza, McMaster University, Canada

 

Scientific Program:
The conference will celebrate the 60th birthdays in 2015 of Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada and University of Pannonia, Hungary) and Egon Schulte (Northeastern University, USA). The theme of the conference will be “Geometry and Symmetry”, with emphasis on recent progress on aspects of discrete geometry in which Egon and Karoly have made remarkable contributions. The program of the conference will consist of invited lectures and contributed talks.

 

Ferenc Hartung (chair), University of Pannonia, Hungary

György Dósa, University of Pannonia, Hungary

Péter Mészáros, University of Pannonia, Hungary

Principal Speakers:
András Bezdek (Auburn University, USA, and Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Károly Böröczky, Sr., Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Károly Böröczky, Jr., Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary

Marston Conder, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Robert Connelly, Cornell University, USA

Antoine Deza, McMaster University, Canada

Nikolai Dolbilin, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia

Herbert Edelsbrunner, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)

Peter Gritzmann, Technische Universität München, Germany

Thomas C. Hales, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Ákos G. Horváth, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary

Isabel Hubard, UNAM, Mexico

Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University, USA

Dimitri Leemans, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Alexander Litvak, University of Alberta, Canada

Horst Martini, TU Chemnitz, Germany

Barry Monson, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Luis Montejano, UNAM, Mexico

Daniel Pellicer, UNAM, Mexico

Tomaž Pisanski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Jozef Širáň, Open University, United Kingdom and Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Konrad Swanepoel, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Program and abstracts (PDF)

 

Proceedings of the conference:

Discrete Geometry and Symmetry: Dedicated to Károly Bezdek and Egon Schulte on the Occasion of Their 60th Birthdays, Marston D. E. Conder, Antoine Deza, Asia Ivić Weiss (eds.), Springer Cham (Németország), 2018. 333 p. (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics; 234.)

 

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