Optimal Configurations on the Sphere and Other Manifolds

Vanderbilt University, May 17 — 20, 2010

Distance avoiding sets on the sphere and other manifolds

Christine Bachoc, Universite Bordeaux 1

• Distance avoiding sets on the sphere and other manifolds
• Christine Bachoc
• Two-dimensional condensed matter
• Mark Bowick
• Poisson summation and packing problems
• Noam D. Elkies
• Energy minimization and connections with sphere packing and spherical codes.
• Abhinav Kumar
• The Stability of Optimizers of Energy or Density
• Charles Radin
• Sequences of point sets and scaled RBFs for multiscale approximation on the sphere
• Ian H. Sloan
• From Packing Planes in Four-Space to Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
• Neil J. A. Sloane
• From Unusual Ground States to Packing Problems
• Salvatore Torquato
• Large deviations for congurations of zeros on Riemann surfaces
• Steve Zelditch