AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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1996 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, October 5-6, 1996
Meeting #914

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

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Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure

• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, I
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum Cohomology and the Verlinde Algebra
    Sharad Agnihotri*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-14-132)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Moduli Space of Polygonal Linkages on the 2-Sphere.
    Amy Jan Galitzer*, University of Maryland
    (914-51-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Torus actions and symplectic volumes of moduli spaces
    Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Mathematics Dept., McGill University
    Jonathan Weitsman, Mathematics Dept., Univ. of California at Santa Cruz
    (914-58-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From polygons to vector bundles and back again
    Jonathan A. Poritz*,
    (914-53-231)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Perfect Morse Function on the Moduli Space of Flat Connections
    Michael Thaddeus*,
    (914-14-102)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, II
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometric moduli problem
    Alexander A. Voronov*, M.I.T.
    (914-14-74)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lines and loci in the moduli space of $SL(2)$-bundles on a curve
    William M. Oxbury, University of Durham
    Christian Pauly, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (914-14-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Strange Duality over an Elliptic Curve
    Loring W. Tu*,
    Ron Donagi,
    (914-14-249)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Abelian Chern-Simons Theory (after Mihaela Manoliu)
    Daniel S. Freed*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-58-307)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Arrangements of lines in the projective plane and new nonquasiprojective fundamental groups
    John J. Millson*, University of Maryland
    (914-14-210)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of SL(2)-characters over surfaces of low Euler characteristic
    William M. Goldman*,
    (914-53-105)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Open Problems/Discussion
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, III
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Compactification of the Universal Picard Scheme for Stable Curves.
    Tyler J. Jarvis*, Mississippi State University
    (914-14-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    GEOGRAPHY OF BRILL-NOETHER LOCI FOR SMALL SLOPES
    Iwona Grzegorczyk*, University of Massachuseetts
    (914-14-61)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    mtgThe Moduli of Flat $SU(p,q)$ connections over Riemann Surfaces
    Eugene Z. Xia*, University of Maryland at College Park
    (914-14-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equivariant stable bundles over flat projective bundles are vortices
    Steven Bradlow*,
    Jim Glazebrook,
    Franz Kamber,
    (914-53-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic Structures on Symmetric Spaces and Integrability.
    Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
    (914-70-252)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, IV
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Solutions of periodic KdV equations and Geodesic Flows on infinite Kaehler manifolds
    Andrey Todorov*, University of California at Santa Cruz
    (914-14-379)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Trigonal Locus in the Moduli Space $\overline{\germ M}_g$ of Curves of Genus $g$
    Zvezdelina E. Stankova-Frenkel*, Harvard University
    (914-14-292)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the quantization of Hitchin's systems
    Edward V. Frenkel*,
    (914-14-288)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Motivic local systems on curves
    Tony Pantev*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (914-14-378)

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