Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
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2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2024)
- Moscone North/South, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
- January 3-6, 2024 (Wednesday - Saturday)
- Meeting #1192
Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:
Michelle Ann Manes, American Institute of Mathematics mmanes@secretariat.ams.org
AMS Special Session on Serious Recreational Mathematics
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Wednesday January 3, 2024, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Serious Recreational Mathematics, I
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik's cube in 2024, this session explores serious mathematical research on playful topics such as puzzles, toys, games, origami, and juggling. History has shown that recreational roots can lead to serious discoveries, such as probability, graph theory, and the aperiodic monotile of 2023. The session aims to showcase both the joy and depth of recreational mathematics to the global mathematical community, and share/solve open problems.
Room 024, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology edemaine@mit.edu
Robert A. Hearn, Gathering 4 Gardner
Tomas Rokicki, California
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9:00 a.m.
The mathematics of discrete periodic patterns...
Steve Butler*, Iowa State University
(1192-05-29618) -
9:30 a.m.
Fun with Fonts: Algorithmic Typography
Martin Demaine*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1192-10-30657) -
10:00 a.m.
Art-Inspired Curved-Crease Origami Analysis and Design
Klara Mundilova*, CSAIL, MIT (subject to change by January)
(1192-10-30486) -
10:30 a.m.
Flat origami is Turing complete
Thomas C. Hull*, Franklin & Marshall College
Inna Zakharevich, Cornell
(1192-68-28781) -
11:00 a.m.
Variants of the 15-puzzle and the effects of holonomy
Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
(1192-10-28925) -
11:30 a.m.
Games on game graphs
David Eppstein*, University of California, Irvine
(1192-05-30761) -
12:00 p.m.
The Mathematics of Solitaire
Persi W Diaconis*, Stanford University
(1192-10-28298)
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9:00 a.m.
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Wednesday January 3, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Serious Recreational Mathematics, II
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik's cube in 2024, this session explores serious mathematical research on playful topics such as puzzles, toys, games, origami, and juggling. History has shown that recreational roots can lead to serious discoveries, such as probability, graph theory, and the aperiodic monotile of 2023. The session aims to showcase both the joy and depth of recreational mathematics to the global mathematical community, and share/solve open problems.
Room 024, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology edemaine@mit.edu
Robert A. Hearn, Gathering 4 Gardner
Tomas Rokicki, California
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1:00 p.m.
The Joy of Computational Recreational Mathematics
Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer*, University of Alberta
(1192-10-29520) -
1:30 p.m.
Unlocking New Solutions: Puzzle Design using Grey Codes (not just Gray Code!)
Aaron Williams*, Williams College
(1192-05-27448) -
2:00 p.m.
Life Update
Noam D Elkies*, Harvard University
(1192-10-32839) -
2:30 p.m.
Fundamental Checkmates on an Extended Chess Board
John Urschel*, MIT
(1192-10-28247) -
3:00 p.m.
EvenQuads, Finite Geometry, and Sidon Sets
Lauren L Rose*, Bard College
(1192-10-32977) -
3:30 p.m.
Research on Common Shape Puzzles
Ryuhei Uehara*, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(1192-68-30922) -
4:00 p.m.
How Not To Get Around In Video Games
Lily Chung*, MIT
(1192-10-33046) -
4:30 p.m.
Puzzles and Games Meet Algorithms and Complexity
Erik Demaine*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1192-10-30661)
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1:00 p.m.
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Saturday January 6, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Serious Recreational Mathematics, III
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik's cube in 2024, this session explores serious mathematical research on playful topics such as puzzles, toys, games, origami, and juggling. History has shown that recreational roots can lead to serious discoveries, such as probability, graph theory, and the aperiodic monotile of 2023. The session aims to showcase both the joy and depth of recreational mathematics to the global mathematical community, and share/solve open problems.
Room 024, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology edemaine@mit.edu
Robert A. Hearn, Gathering 4 Gardner
Tomas Rokicki, California
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8:00 a.m.
A conversation with Ernő Rubik
Erik Demaine*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1192-10-30656) -
9:00 a.m.
Twenty Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube
Tomas Rokicki*, California
(1192-10-29926) -
9:30 a.m.
Rubik's Cube, the Jeep Problem, and an Open Rectangle-Packing Problem
Richard E. Korf*, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles
(1192-10-29994) -
10:00 a.m.
The Puzzling Origins of Compound Symmetry Groups
Robert A. Hearn*, Gathering 4 Gardner
(1192-10-32863) -
10:30 a.m.
Unfolding Puzzles of Regular 4D Polytopes
Satyan L. Devadoss*, University of San Diego
Matthew Steven Harvey, University of Virginia, Wise
(1192-52-28825) -
11:00 a.m.
Counting Stitches: Enumerative Problems in Knitting
Susan Goldstine*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
(1192-10-32738) -
11:30 a.m.
The Bricklayer's Challenge
Barry Cipra*, Freelance
(1192-10-27655)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday January 6, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Serious Recreational Mathematics, IV
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik's cube in 2024, this session explores serious mathematical research on playful topics such as puzzles, toys, games, origami, and juggling. History has shown that recreational roots can lead to serious discoveries, such as probability, graph theory, and the aperiodic monotile of 2023. The session aims to showcase both the joy and depth of recreational mathematics to the global mathematical community, and share/solve open problems.
Room 024, The Moscone Center
Organizers:
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology edemaine@mit.edu
Robert A. Hearn, Gathering 4 Gardner
Tomas Rokicki, California
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1:00 p.m.
The Hat Tile and The Rosenthal Prize
Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, National Museum of Mathematics
(1192-10-32170) -
2:00 p.m.
Marjorie Rice's pursuit of convex pentagons and their tilings
Doris J Schattschneider*, Moravian University
(1192-52-27586) -
2:30 p.m.
Enumerating domino tilings of $2 \times n$ grids on surfaces
sarah-marie belcastro*, Mathematical Staircase, Inc.
(1192-05-28976) -
3:00 p.m.
Frameless N-ary Puzzles
Bram Cohen*, none
(1192-10-32054) -
3:30 p.m.
Probabiility and Intuition
Peter M Winkler*, Dartmouth College
(1192-10-30965) -
4:00 p.m.
Recreational computer programming
Donald E Knuth*, stanford university
(1192-68-26681)
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1:00 p.m.