AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:38

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

Saturday April 12, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, Moduli Spaces and Integrable Systems, I
Room 0306, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University and Institute for Advanced Study jeffrey@math.mcGill.ca
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equivariant Holomorphic Morse Theory
  Siye Wu*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (920-53-237)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Components of $Hom(\pi_1, PGL(2,R))$
  Eugene Z. Xia*, University of Maryland at College Park
  (920-14-07)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Rigorous Definition of Fiberwise Quantum Cohomology and Equivariant QuantumCohomology.
  Peng Lu*, University of Minnesota
  (920-58-63)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Gromov Invariants and Symplectic Dynamics
  Eleny Ionel*, MIT and MSRI
  Thomas H. Parker, Michigan State University
  (920-14-271)

Saturday April 12, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, Moduli Spaces and Integrable Systems, II
Room 0306, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University and Institute for Advanced Study jeffrey@math.mcGill.ca
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Genus zero moduli space as ``difference" of toric varieties
  Allen Knutson*, Brandeis University
  Jean-Claude Hausmann, University of Geneva
  (920-14-197)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Moduli Spaces of Flat Bundles and Matrix p-Tuples
  Philip A Foth*, Penn State University
  (920-14-10)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rationality of moduli spaces of vector bundles over smooth curves
  Hans U. Boden*, Mcmaster University
  Koji Yokogawa, Osaka University, Japan
  (920-14-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A symplectic approach to Verlinde factorization
  Eckhard Meinrenken*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (920-53-145)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Symplectic Geometry and Fusion
  Chris Woodward*, Harvard University
  (920-53-169)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Verlinde algbera of a compact group
  Sharad Agnihotri*, University of Texas at Austin
  (920-14-168)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Universal Vassiliev invariants and quantization of the moduli space of flat connections on a Riemann surface
  Jorgen Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Josef Mattes*, University of California, Davis
  Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley
  (920-58-14)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, Moduli Spaces and Integrable Systems, III
Room 0306, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University and Institute for Advanced Study jeffrey@math.mcGill.ca
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Langlands conjecture and geometric realization of Whittaker functions
  Edward Frenkel*, Harvard University
  (920-14-165)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integrable systems and algebraic surfaces
  Jacques C. Hurtubise*, McGill University
  (920-58-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prym integrable systems
  Jacques Hurtubise, McGill University
  Eyal Markman*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (920-14-142)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Heisenberg action and the Hitchin system.
  Bert van Geemen, Universit\`a di Torino, Italy
  Emma Previato*, Boston University
  (920-14-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Principal bundles on elliptic fibrations
  Ron Y. Donagi*, Institute for Advanced Study On leave from: University of Pennsylvania
  (920-14-193)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, Moduli Spaces and Integrable Systems,IV
Room 0306, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University and Institute for Advanced Study jeffrey@math.mcGill.ca
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometry of Commuting Differential Operators
  Motohico Mulase*, University of California, Davis
  (920-14-172)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topology of moduli spaces over a quadruply-punctured sphere
  William M. Goldman*,
  Robert L. Benedetto,
  (920-57-181)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On representation varieties of Artin groups,projective arrangements andthe fundamental groups of smooth complex algebraic varieties.
  John J Millson*, University of Maryland
  (920-14-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Fox Calculus, Symplectic Geometry, and Moduli Spaces.
  Valentino Zocca*, Universite' Paris XI, Orsay, France
  (920-53-31)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Canonical Almost Hermitian Structures of Normal Bundles and Applications to K{\"a}hler forms
  Po-Hsun Hsieh*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (920-53-18)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The dynamics of surface diffeomorphisms on moduli spaces
  Richard J. Brown*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (920-51-261)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On a formula of Goresky, Kottwitz, and McPherson
  Susan Tolman, Princeton University
  Jonathan Weitsman*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (920-58-274)

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