AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29

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

Friday March 22, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, I
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quadratic algebras of hyperplane arrangements.
  Sergey Yuzvinsky*, University of Oregon
  (909-52-149)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Braid monodromy and fundamental groups of arrangements.
  Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
  (909-14-209)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some four-dimensional convex polyhedra.
  Vincent J. Matsko*, Quincy University
  (909-52-42)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Intersection theory in $\Omega$*(log$D$).
  Roberto Silvotti*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (909-52-241)

Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, II
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the topology of strata in the standard discriminant.
  Boris Z. Shapiro*, Stockholm University, Sweden
  Volkmar Welker, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University at GH-Essen, Germany
  (909-57-268)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On twisted de Rham cohomology.
  Alan C. Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  Steven Sperber, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (909-14-210)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Signed-graphic arrangements of hyperplanes.
  Guy David Bailey*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (909-52-18)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Configuration spaces and subspace arrangements.
  Sheila Sundaram*, University of Miami
  (909-05-230)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cohomology and classification of $OS$ algebras.
  Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  (909-52-233)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A normal form algorithm for modules over two lines in the plane.
  Reinhard Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
  (909-13-46)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, III
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
- 9:00 a.m.
  Ordered configurations of roots of real polynomials.
  Volkmar Welker*, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Germany
  (909-57-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homotopy theory of arrangements.
  Richard C. Randell*, University of Iowa
  (909-52-214)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Intersection lattices of discriminantal arrangements.
  Margaret M. Bayer*, University of Kansas
  (909-52-178)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Complex hyperplane arrangements.
  Helene Barcelo*, Arizona State University
  E. C. Ihrig, Arizona State University
  (909-52-195)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, IV
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topology of the complements and geometry of finite sets of points.
  Anatoly S. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (909-14-186)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Infinite arrangements and cohomology of $SL_n(Z)$.
  Yining Xia*, Northern Illinois University
  (909-55-41)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Perversity, duality, and arrangements in $\Bbb C^3$.
  David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
  (909-32-171)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Braid monodromy of arrangements and representations of braid groups.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Alexandru I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
  (909-20-239)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Informal discussion

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