AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:10

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 8, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Sandor Kovacs, University of Chicago kovacs@math.uchicago.edu
Andras Nemethi, Ohio State University nemethi@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Generalized Casson Invariants via Gauge Theory.
  Hans U Boden*, The Ohio State University-Mansfield
  Christopher Herald, University of Nevada, Reno
  (953-57-130)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Equivariant Casson and links of singularities.
  Olivier Collin, Harvard University
  Nikolai Saveliev*, Tulane University
  (953-32-21)

Saturday April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Sandor Kovacs, University of Chicago kovacs@math.uchicago.edu
Andras Nemethi, Ohio State University nemethi@math.ohio-state.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Boundedness for $3$-fold singularities.
  James M$^c$kernan*, Mathematics Department, UCSB
  (953-14-117)
- 4:00 p.m.
  About Mapping Class Groups in higher dimensions and Geometric Monodromy of the Milnor fiber.
  Nikolai A Krylov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (953-14-137)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Elliptic Genera and applications to mirror symmetry.
  Anatoly Libgober*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (953-14-221)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Sandor Kovacs, University of Chicago kovacs@math.uchicago.edu
Andras Nemethi, Ohio State University nemethi@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Vanishing Theorem Toolkit.
  Donu Arapura*, Purdue University
  (953-14-180)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The multiplier ideal is a universal test ideal.
  Karen E Smith*, University of Michigan
  (953-14-218)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Sandor Kovacs, University of Chicago kovacs@math.uchicago.edu
Andras Nemethi, Ohio State University nemethi@math.ohio-state.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Simple plane curve singularities and log canonical thresholds.
  Brendan Hassett*, University of Chicago
  (953-14-294)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Surface log terminal singularities in positive characteristics.
  Kenji Matsuki*, Purdue University
  (953-14-343)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Fano 3-fold with unique elliptic fibration.
  Ivan Cheltsov*, Johns Hopkins University
  (953-14-224)

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