AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:51

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Lie Groups, I
Room 501, Mathematics
Organizers:
Samuel R. Evens, University of Arizona evens@math.arizona.edu
Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona jhlu@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A triangularity result for associated varieties of highest weight modules.
  William M. McGovern*, University of Washington
  (938-17-27)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties in a Generalized Flag Variety.
  James B. Carrell*, University of British Columbia
  (938-14-86)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Patterns, Smoothness and Rational Smoothness of Schubert Varieties.
  Sara C. Billey*, MIT
  (938-05-104)

Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Lie Groups, II
Room 501, Mathematics
Organizers:
Samuel R. Evens, University of Arizona evens@math.arizona.edu
Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona jhlu@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Invariant Theory and Entanglement in Quantum Computing.
  David Meyer, University of California, San Diego
  Nolan Wallach*, University of California, San Diego
  (938-22-94)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Representations and deformations of Lie bialgebroid.
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University
  (938-53-107)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Poisson brackets on projective spaces and trilinear forms.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Harvard University
  (938-14-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Moduli of polygons and n-pointed projective lines.
  Philip A Foth*, Northwestern University, University of Arizona
  (938-14-61)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Compact weakly symmetric spaces and spherical pairs.
  Hieu D Nguyen*, Rowan University
  (938-53-11)

Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Lie Groups, III
Room 501, Mathematics
Organizers:
Samuel R. Evens, University of Arizona evens@math.arizona.edu
Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona jhlu@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gauge equivalence of Poisson structures.
  Alan Weinstein*, University of California, Berkeley
  (938-58-58)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Groupoid and the integration of Lie algebroids.
  Victor Nistor*, Penn State
  (938-58-26)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Braid Representations and Exceptional Lie Groups.
  Hans Wenzl*, UC San Diego
  Imre Tuba, UC San Diego
  (938-22-70)

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