From:           "John E. Wetzel" <j-wetzel@uiuc.edu>
To:             "Clark Kimberling" <ck6@cedar.evansville.edu>
Cc:             "John E. Wetzel" <j-wetzel@uiuc.edu>
Subject:        Special session in Urbana in March
Date:           Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:45:35 -0600

This brief note is to call your attention to the forthcoming Special Session, "Recent progress in elementary geometry," being planned for the AMS regional meeting at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois, next March 18-21. The organizers are Professors Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville, and John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois.

By "elementary geometry" we have in mind a potpourri of classical, discrete, combinatorial, enumerative, and computational geometry, including properties of triangles, polygons, polytopes, coverings and fittings, tilings, convexity, geometric inequalities, etc. -- indeed almost any geometric topic that is not especially "differential" in nature could be suitable.

Among the speakers already scheduled are:

• Prof. Dr. Heiko Harborth, "Packing problems with congruent polygons"
• Prof. Greg Huber, TBA
• Prof. Gregory Galperin, TBA
• Prof. Clark Kimberling, "Enumerative triangle geometry"
• Prof. John Rigby, "Okumura's double tiling"
• Prof. Doris Schattschneider, "Revisiting some tiling problems"
• Magnus J. Wenninger, "Patterns on a spherical surface"
• Steven Finch, "Several Constants Arising in Elementary Geometry"
• Xin-Min Zhang, "Dynamic Geometry of Polygons" (with Richard Hitt)
• Anthony C. Thompson, "The solution to the isoperimetric problem in 3-dimensional Minkowski space"
• John E. Wetzel, TBA

The (newly revised) deadlines for the Special Session, announced on page 1281 of the October Notices, are as follows:

• Deadline for contributed papers: December 2, 1998
• Deadline for abstracts: January 27, 1999

The Special Session looks to be stimulating and exciting. We hope you can participate.

--John E. Wetzel
--Clark Kimberling