AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, I
Room 119, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stratified spaces formed by totally positive varieties.
  Sergey Fomin*, University of Michigan
  Michael Z Shapiro, KTH Stockholm
  (957-14-239)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Connected components of real double Bruhat cells.
  Andrei Zelevinsky*, Northeastern University
  (957-14-247)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Connections between singular loci and cohomology of Schubert Varieties.
  Sara C Billey*, M.I.T.
  (957-05-302)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Smooth Schubert varieties in partial flag manifolds.
  Vesslin Gasharov, Cornell University
  Victor Reiner*, University of Minnesota
  (957-05-173)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Isotropic Schubert calculus and polytopes.
  Nantel Bergeron, York University
  Stefan Mykytiuk, York University
  Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  Stephanie van Willigenburg*, Cornell University
  (957-05-206)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, II
Room 119, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Descent-cycling in Schubert calculus.
  Allen I Knutson*, U. C. Berkeley
  (957-05-236)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Littlewood-Richardson rule for multiplying Schur polynomials by certain Schubert polynomials.
  Mikhail Kogan*, Northeastern University
  (957-05-297)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pieri's Formula for the $T$-Equivariant Cohomology of the Flag Variety.
  Shawn A Robinson*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (957-22-312)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Littlewood-Richardson rule for the $K$-theory of Grassmannians.
  Anders S Buch*, MIT
  (957-14-197)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, III
Room 119, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equivariant cohomology and regular ${\mathfrak B}$-actions actions.
  James B. Carrell*, Univ. of B. C.
  Michel Brion, Univ. de Grenoble
  (957-14-215)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Schubert Calculus in Symplectic Geometry.
  Rebecca F Goldin*, University of Maryland
  (957-51-262)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break
- 10:30 a.m.
  Positivity in equivariant Schubert calculus.
  William Graham*, University of Georgia
  (957-14-311)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Gr\"obner geometry of formulae for (double) Schubert polynomials.
  Allen I. Knutson, UC Berkeley
  Ezra N. Miller*, MIT
  (957-14-270)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, IV
Room 119, Galbraith Building
Organizers:
Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Quantum Cohomology of Flag Manifolds.
  Linda Chen*, Columbia University
  (957-14-255)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Standard conjectures for the arithmetic Grassmannian $G(2,n)$.
  Andrew Kresch*, University of Pennsylvania
  Harry Tamvakis, University of Pennsylvania
  (957-14-52)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Break
- 3:30 p.m.
  Embeddings of Schur functions into types $B/C/D$.
  Michael Kleber*, MIT
  (957-05-172)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Honeycombs and Facets of the Littlewood Richardson cone.
  Allen Knutson, Berkeley
  Terry Tao, UCLA
  Chris Woodward*, Rutgers
  (957-05-278)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Eigenvalues of majorized Hermitian matrices and Schubert calculus.
  William Fulton*, University of Michigan
  (957-15-194)

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