AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, I
Room 407, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 8:50 a.m.
  Infinitesimal Variations of Hodge Structures at Infinity.
  Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Javier Fernandez*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (952-14-132)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Hodge integrals and Hurwitz numbers.
  Ravi D Vakil*, MIT
  (952-14-120)
- 9:50 a.m.
  A local proof of Petri's conjecture at the general curve.
  Herb Clemens*, University of Utah
  (952-14-58)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rational Hypergeometric Functions.
  Eduardo Cattani*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
  (952-33-134)

Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, II
Room 407, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quantum cohomology and quantum Chow ring of the cubic threefold.
  Tom B Graber*, Harvard University
  Rahul Pandharipande, California Institute of Technology
  (952-14-94)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mirror symmetry, cohomology and the chiral ring of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
  Anvar R Mavlyutov*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (952-14-165)
- 3:55 p.m.
  Gauge Theory Techniques in Quantum Cohomology I.
  Steven Rosenberg, Boston University
  Mihaela B Vajiac*, Boston University
  (952-14-160)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gauge Theory Techniques in Quantum Cohomology II.
  Steven Rosenberg*, Boston University
  Mihaela Vajiac, Boston University
  (952-14-151)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mirror Symmetry.
  Kentaro Hori*, Harvard University
  (952-81-150)

Sunday April 2, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, III
Room 407, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Counting representations onto finite groups, and torsion points on characteristic varieties.
  Daniel Matei, University of Rochester
  Alexander I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
  (952-20-57)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Trigonometric Sums and Moduli Spaces.
  Andras Szenes*, MIT
  (952-05-126)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Parabolic G-bundles and products of conjugacy classes.
  Chris T Woodward*, Rutgers University
  Constantin Teleman, University of Texas at Austin
  (952-58-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Real Rational Curves in Grassmannians.
  Frank Sottile*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (952-14-80)

Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, IV
Room 407, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometric Langlands conjecture for $GL(n)$.
  Dennis Gaitsgory*, Harvard University
  (952-14-161)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Smoothings of maps from nodal curves to nonsingular surfaces.
  Ravi D Vakil*, MIT
  (952-14-114)
- 3:50 p.m.
  The Virtual Fundamental Class of a Complete Intersection.
  David A Cox*, Amherst College
  (952-14-85)
- 4:20 p.m.
  The generalized Witten conjecture, integrable hierarchies, and moduli spaces of higher spin curves.
  Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University
  Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
  Arkady Vaintrob, New Mexico State University
  (952-14-133)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic construction of the virtual class for spin cohomological field theories.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
  Arkady Vaintrob, New Mexico State University
  (952-14-136)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion, open questions, proceedings project.

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