Rigidity, connectivity and graph decompositions
Rigidity Theory Day Sunday 12 November 2006 All events: Seelye Hall, lecture room 201, coffee breaks and lunches in Seelye 207 Rigidity Theory Overview 9:00-10:00 Robert Connelly Rigidity from Cauchy to granular material 10:00-10:30 Coffee break Combinatorial Rigidity 10:30-11:15 Brigitte Servatius The molecular conjecture in 2-dimensions The Engineering perspective 11:25 -12:10 Robert Norton Kinematics in Engineering 12:10 - 1:30 Lunch break Geometry and Rigidity 1:30 - 2:20 Henry Crapo Rigidity as Homology 2:20-2:50 Coffee break Rigidity Applications 2:50 - 3:30 Meera Sitharam Rigidity and Geometric Constraint Decomposition 3:40 - 4:20 Herman Servatius Constrained Position Vector Configurations 4:30 - 5:10 Rudi Penne Instant centers in planar mechanisms 5:10 - 6:00 Discussion, open problems and refreshments