AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:58

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 30, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces and Related Number Theory, I
Room 168, Rike Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topology of affine algebraic surfaces.
  Burt Totaro*, University of Chicago
  (876-14-169)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Smooth contractible hypersurfaces in C^n and exotic structures on C^n.
  Shulim Kaliman*, University of Miami
  (876-14-184)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Critical points at infinity.
  A. Durfee*, Mount Holyoke College
  (876-14-248)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topological invariants of affine hypersurfaces.
  A. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (876-14-170)

Friday October 30, 1992, 7:00 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces and Related Number Theory, II
Room 168, Rike Hall
- 7:00 p.m.
  Essential surjectivity of the (classical) crystalline Dieudonne functor.
  William Messing*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (876-14-202)
- 7:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic geometry and abelian varieties.
  P. Norman*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (876-14-261)
- 8:00 p.m.
  Complement of a hypersurface and number theory.
  M. Tretkoff*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (876-14-265)

Saturday October 31, 1992, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces and Related Number Theory, III
Room 168, Rike Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stratification of families of plane algebraic curves by the link at infinity.
  S. Allen Broughton*, Cleveland State University
  (876-11-259)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Modified integral closure conditions and equisingularity.
  J. W. Bruce, University of Liverpool
  Donal O'Shea*, Mount Holyoke College
  (876-32-206)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Arithmetic algebraic geometry.
  W. Niziol*, University of Chicago
  (876-14-262)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The finiteness problem in rigid cohomology.
  Richard Crew*, University of Florida
  (876-14-189)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hypergeometric differential equations.
  Alan C. Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University
  (876-11-250)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Weak completion and convex functions.
  Daqing Wan*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  (876-13-43)

Saturday October 31, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces and Related Number Theory, IV
Room 168, Rike Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  Higher multiplicities and almost free divisors.
  James Damon*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (876-32-105)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Aspherical three-arrangements and cohomology of groups.
  Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
  (876-14-75)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Coxeter arrangements are hereditarily free.
  Peter Orlik*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Hiroaki Terao, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (876-14-10)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A simple hypergeometric system.
  Jean-Luc Brylinski*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (876-14-132)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Kouchnirenko's theorem.
  Pierrette Cassou-Nogu\`es*, University of Bordeaux I, France
  (876-55-203)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Koosterman sums as algebraic integers.
  Benji N. Fisher*, Columbia University
  (876-11-133)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Fermat equations and families.
  David M. Goss*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (876-11-228)
- 6:30 p.m.
  Local densities as Radon-Nikodym derivatives.
  David Hayes*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (876-11-155)

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