AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 5, 1996, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mirror Symmetry and Toric Varieties, I
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma@rider.edu
Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 10:00 a.m.
  Degenerations of flag and Schubert varieties to toric varieties
  Nicolae Gonciulea*,
  Venkatramani Lakshmibai,
  (914-14-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Recent developments on elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds
  Antonella Grassi*, University of Pennsylvania
  (914-14-298)

Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mirror Symmetry and Toric Varieties, II
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma@rider.edu
Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mirror Duality and string-theoretic Hodge numbers
  Victor V. Batyrev, University of Essen
  Lev A. Borisov*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (914-14-23)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mirror Symmetry and the Horrocks-Mumford bundle
  Ciprian S. Borcea*, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
  (914-14-245)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Intersection Homology of Toric Varieties and a Conjecture of Kalai
  Tom C. Braden*,
  Robert D. MacPherson,
  (914-14-221)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Applications of Deformation theory of Calabi-Yau Threefolds
  Mark Gross*,
  (914-14-331)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Crepant resolutions of orbifolds.
  Anatoly Libgober*, Univ of Il at Chicago.
  (914-14-166)

Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mirror Symmetry and Toric Varieties, III
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma@rider.edu
Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Pencils of K3 surfaces.
  Helena A. Verrill*,
  (914-14-09)
- 9:30 a.m.
  KO-Theory of Toric Manifolds
  Anthony Bahri*, Rider University
  Martin Bendersky, CUNY, Hunter College
  (914-55-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Arithmetic of certain Calabi--Yau type varieties over numberfields
  Noriko Yui*, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
  (914-14-94)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mirror symmetry is T-Duality
  Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
  Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
  Eric Zaslow*, Harvard University
  (914-14-394)

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