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