AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13

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

Saturday November 4, 2000, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, I
Room 207, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University michael.falk@nau.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 8:40 a.m.
  Triples of arrangements and local systems.
  Daniel C Cohen*, Louisiana State University
  (959-52-182)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Incidence combinatorics of model constructions.
  Eva-Maria E Feichtner*, ETH Zurich
  Dmitry N Kozlov, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  (959-06-252)
- 9:50 a.m.
  The cohomology rings of complements of subspace arrangements.
  Mark de Longueville*, University of Minnesota
  Carsten A Schultz, Freie Universitaet Berlin
  (959-52-104)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Equivariant Euler characteristics of braid arrangements.
  Graham C Denham*, University of Oregon
  Nicole M Lemire, University of Oregon
  (959-20-275)

Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, II
Room 207, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University michael.falk@nau.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Shephard Groups and the Sign Representation.
  Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Victor Reiner, School of Mathematics
  Anne V Shepler*, University of California at Santa Cruz
  (959-52-249)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Cohomology ring of the complement to rational arrangements and Generalized Aomoto Complexes.
  Jos\'e I Cogolludo*, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  (959-14-264)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Constructing Canonical Generating Sets for the Module of A-Derivations of an Arrangement of Hyperplanes and Conditions Determining Freeness.
  John M Keaty*, IBM Austin, Texas
  (959-14-289)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Reflection Groups and Milnor Fiber Complexes.
  Stephen D Szydlik*, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  (959-52-242)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Compactifications of real subspace and half-space arrangements.
  Giovanni Gaiffi*, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
  (959-52-132)
- 5:25 p.m.
  Resonance varieties and fibered arrangements.
  Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  (959-52-251)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, III
Room 207, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University michael.falk@nau.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 8:40 a.m.
  Resonance Varieties and Tangent Cones to Characteristic Varieties.
  Daniel Matei*, University of Rochester
  Alexander I Suciu, Northeastern University
  (959-14-167)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Random walks and hyperplane arrangements.
  Kenneth S. Brown*, Cornell University
  (959-60-122)
- 9:50 a.m.
  A commutative algebra for oriented matroids.
  Raul Cordovil*, Dept. Math. -IST
  (959-05-232)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Matroids and quotients of spheres.
  Edward B Swartz*, Cornell University
  (959-52-245)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, IV
Room 207, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University michael.falk@nau.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  There is no tame triangulation of the infinite real Grassmannian.
  Laura M Anderson*, Texas A\&M University
  James F Davis, Indiana University
  (959-05-224)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Gr\"obner fans of codimension three lattice ideals.
  Serkan Ho\c{s}ten, San Francisco State University
  Diane Maclagan*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
  (959-13-284)
- 3:40 p.m.
  The other braid monoid.
  David Bessis*, Yale University
  (959-20-153)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Deformations of hyperplane arrangements.
  Michel Jambu*, Universit\'e de Nantes, France
  (959-52-296)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Stability and Jump Loci for a family of bundles on ${\bf P}^2$.
  Hal Schenck*, Harvard University
  (959-14-156)

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