AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:45

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday November 2, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 418, University Union Building
- 7:30 a.m.
  Homotopy limits in general (co)fibration categories.
  Jerome William Hoffman*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (861-55-147)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Goppa codes and Weierstrass gaps.
  Robert F. Lax*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (861-14-39)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Periods of mixed cusp forms.
  Min Ho Lee*, University of Northern Iowa
  (861-11-38)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A beginner's guide to Persson diagrams.
  Charles F. Schwartz*, Rider College
  William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (861-14-182)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Nef cotangent bundles of branched coverings.
  Michael J. Spurr*, East Carolina University
  (861-14-142)

Friday November 2, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 418, University Union Building
- 1:30 p.m.
  Exponential sums and Newton polyhedra.
  Alan Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (861-14-213)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Characteristic numbers for singular cubics.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (861-14-124)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Birational mappings between hypersurfaces of degree M+1 in P^M+1.
  Bruce Crauder*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (861-14-153)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Families of Abelian varieties over modular curves, the generalized Tate conjecture, and ordinary primes for modular forms.
  B. Brent Gordon*, University of Oklahoma
  (861-14-219)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hilbert modular threefolds.
  H. G. Grundman*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (861-14-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Homogeneous and scheme-theoretic generation of varieties by quadrics.
  Sheldon Katz*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (861-14-134)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the existence of components of the Hilbert scheme with the expected number of moduli.
  Angelo Lopez*, University of California, Riverside
  (861-14-181)

Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 418, University Union Building
- 7:00 a.m.
  On desingularized Horrocks-Mumford quintics.
  Ciprian Borcea*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (861-14-120)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Period relations for twisted Legendre equations.
  W. L. Hoyt*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (861-14-154)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Field of definition of the group of sections of elliptic surfaces.
  Masato Kuwata*, University of British Columbia,
  (861-11-198)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The singularities of the parameter surface of a minimal elliptic threefolds.
  Antonella Grassi*, Tufts University
  (861-14-197)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On a conjecture of Tyurin.
  Yun-Gang Ye*, Duke University
  (861-14-212)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Adjunction for vector bundles.
  Qi Zhang*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  (861-14-183)

Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 418, University Union Building
- 2:00 p.m.
  Spaces of rational functions on curves over finite fields.
  Stephen A. DiPippo*, Brigham Young University
  (861-14-174)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Embeddings of rational surfaces as Cohen-Macaulay varieties.
  A. V. Geramita, Queen's University
  A. Gimigliano, Universit\'a di Genova, Italy
  B. Harbourne*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  (861-14-159)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The arithmetic of the Jacobian of a Fermat curve.
  William G. McCallum*, University of Arizona
  (861-14-171)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Elliptic surfaces.
  Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
  (861-14-195)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

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