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3286
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Overview

Robert Connelly is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, specializing in fields related to Engineering and Computer Science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Geometry and Topology, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their academic output involves main topics including Structural Analysis and Optimization, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation, Mathematics and Applications, Digital Image Processing Techniques, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, and Architecture and Computational Design.

Among recent publications authored by Robert Connelly are:

  • Generically Globally Rigid Graphs Have Generic Universally Rigid Frameworks, 2020, COMBINATORICA
  • Global rigidity of complete bipartite graphs, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Rigidity of Circle Packings with Flexible Radii, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Connelly include:

  • Simon D. Guest
  • Steven J. Gortler
  • Louis Theran
  • Zhen Zhang
  • Anthony Nixon

The primary venues where Robert Connelly has published work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • COMBINATORICA
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
  • physica status solidi (b)

Robert Connelly also contributed to academic literature through book publications. One notable book is Frameworks, Tensegrities, and Symmetry, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

In recognition of contributions to mathematics, Robert Connelly was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids

    Aleksandar Donev;Ibrahim Cisse;Ibrahim Cisse;David Sachs;Evan A. Variano;Evan A. Variano

  • Generic Global Rigidity

    Robert Connelly

  • Second-Order Rigidity and Prestress Stability for TensegrityFrameworks

    Robert Connelly;Walter Whiteley

  • Rigidity and Energy

    Robert Connelly

  • Underconstrained jammed packings of nonspherical hard particles: ellipses and ellipsoids.

    Aleksandar Donev;Robert Connelly;Frank H. Stillinger;Salvatore Torquato

  • Straightening polygonal arcs and convexifying polygonal cycles

    R. Connelly;E.D. Demaine;G. Rote

  • A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for polyhedra

    Robert Connelly

  • Mathematics and Tensegrity

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  • The Bellows conjecture.

    R. Connelly;I. Sabitov;A. Walz

  • A linear programming algorithm to test for jamming in hard-sphere packings

    Aleksandar Donev;Salvatore Torquato;Frank H. Stillinger;Robert Connelly

  • Sudoku, Gerechte Designs, Resolutions, Affine Space, Spreads, Reguli, and Hamming Codes

    R. A. Bailey;Peter J. Cameron;Robert Connelly

  • The rigidity of certain cabled frameworks and the second-order rigidity of arbitrarily triangulated convex surfaces

    Robert Connelly

  • Global Rigidity: The Effect of Coning

    R. Connelly;W. J. Whiteley

  • On monotone paths among obstacles with applications to planning assemblies

    E. M. Arkin;R. Connelly;J. S. Mitchell

  • Pushing disks apart - The Kneser-Poulsen conjecture in the plane

    Károly Bezdek;Robert Connelly

  • On Generic Global Rigidity.

    Robert Connelly

  • The Rigidity of Polyhedral Surfaces

    Robert Connelly

  • Higher-order rigidity--What is the proper definition?

    Robert Connelly;Herman Servatius

  • Blowing Up Polygonal Linkages

    Robert Connelly;Erik D. Demaine;Günter Rote

  • When is a symmetric pin-jointed framework isostatic?

    Robert Connelly;Patrick Fowler;Simon Guest;Bernd Schulze

  • Realizability of Graphs

    Maria Belk;Robert Connelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Gortler
Steven J. Gortler Harvard University
Walter Whiteley
Walter Whiteley York University
Salvatore Torquato
Salvatore Torquato Princeton University
Frank H. Stillinger
Frank H. Stillinger Princeton University
Günter Rote
Günter Rote Freie Universität Berlin
Steven J. Ostro
Steven J. Ostro Jet Propulsion Lab
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Joseph S. B. Mitchell Stony Brook University
Sidney R. Nagel
Sidney R. Nagel University of Chicago
Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin New York University

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