AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:30

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

Saturday October 13, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, I
Room 105, Clark Hall
Organizers:
Eva Maria Feichtner, ETH, Z\"urich, Switzerland feichtne@math.ethz.ch
Dmitry N. Kozlov, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden kozlov@math.kth.se
- 8:30 a.m.
  Combinatorics of complex line arrangements with essential jumping loci.
  Sergey Yuzvinsky*, University of Oregon, Eugene
  (971-05-49)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lower central series and free resolutions of arrangements.
  Henry K. Schenck, Texas A&M University
  Alexander I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
  (971-16-78)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebras generated by reciprocals of linear forms.
  Hiroaki Terao*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  (971-05-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tutte Polynomials of Hyperplane Arrangements.
  Federico Ardila*, M.I.T.
  (971-05-191)

Saturday October 13, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, II
Room 105, Clark Hall
Organizers:
Eva Maria Feichtner, ETH, Z\"urich, Switzerland feichtne@math.ethz.ch
Dmitry N. Kozlov, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden kozlov@math.kth.se
- 2:30 p.m.
  Free probability for combinatorialists.
  Richard P Stanley*, M.I.T.
  (971-05-68)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quasisymmetric functions and Eulerian enumeration.
  Louis J Billera*, Cornell University
  Samuel K Hsiao, Cornell University
  Stephanie van Willigenburg, Cornell University
  (971-05-89)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Variations of hyperoctahedral descent algebras.
  Ira M Gessel*, Brandeis University
  (971-05-59)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Lower bounds for Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials from patterns.
  Sara Billey, MIT
  Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (971-05-144)
- 5:30 p.m.
  P-kernels, IC bases, and Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.
  Francesco Brenti*, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
  (971-05-182)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, III
Room 105, Clark Hall
Organizers:
Eva Maria Feichtner, ETH, Z\"urich, Switzerland feichtne@math.ethz.ch
Dmitry N. Kozlov, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden kozlov@math.kth.se
- 8:30 a.m.
  Recent progress in the topology of simplicial complexes.
  Victor S Reiner*, University of Minnesota
  (971-05-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Multiplicity of the trivial representation in rank-selected homology of the partition lattice.
  Philip Hanlon, University of Michigan
  Patricia Hersh*, University of Michigan
  (971-05-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Distribution of Values in The Quadratic Assignment Problem.
  Tamon Stephen*, University of Michigan
  (971-90-124)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Geometric Classification of Trapezoid Orders.
  Kenneth P Bogart*, Dartmouth College
  (971-06-162)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, IV
Room 105, Clark Hall
Organizers:
Eva Maria Feichtner, ETH, Z\"urich, Switzerland feichtne@math.ethz.ch
Dmitry N. Kozlov, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden kozlov@math.kth.se
- 2:30 p.m.
  A $B_n$-analogue of the chessboard complex.
  Michelle L Wachs*, University of Miami
  (971-05-203)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The probabalistic zeta function and coset poset of a finite group.
  John Shareshian*, Washington Univeristy, St. Louis
  (971-05-136)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The matroid Grassmannian is homotopy equivalent to the real Grassmannian.
  Daniel K Biss*, MIT
  (971-52-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Webs in Grassmann Cells.
  Alexander Postnikov*, MIT, Dept. Math
  (971-05-142)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Moduli spaces and the Littlewood-Richardson cone.
  Eric K Babson, University of Washington
  Paul E Gunnells*, Rutgers University
  (971-14-188)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Poset bundles.
  Laura M Anderson*, SUNY at Binghamton
  Eric K Babson, University of Washington
  (971-05-183)

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