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, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 417, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Sorin Popescu, Columbia University psorin@math.columbia.edu
Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University lborisov@math.columbia.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals.
  Tom Graber*, Harvard
  Ravi Vakil, MIT
  (959-14-247)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hurwitz numbers and the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves.
  Ravi Vakil*, M.I.T.
  Tom Graber, Harvard
  (959-14-169)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Localization and Gromov-Witten theory.
  Rahul V. Pandharipande*, Caltech
  (959-14-279)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hyperquot schemes and rational curves on flag varieties.
  Linda Chen*, Columbia University
  (959-14-276)

Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 417, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Sorin Popescu, Columbia University psorin@math.columbia.edu
Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University lborisov@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Decomposition Theorem for Hochschild (Co-)Homology of Complex Spaces.
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Univ. of Toronto
  Hubert Flenner, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
  (959-14-203)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Deformations of moduli spaces and non-commutative geometry.
  Ludmil Katzarkov, UC Irvine
  Dmitry Orlov, Steklov Institute, Russia
  Tony Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
  (959-14-221)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and the Hitchin system.
  Michael Thaddeus*, Columbia University
  (959-14-165)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Fourier-Mukai approach to spectral data for instantons.
  Marcos B Jardim*, University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College
  Antony Maciocia, University of Edinburgh
  (959-14-57)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 417, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Sorin Popescu, Columbia University psorin@math.columbia.edu
Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University lborisov@math.columbia.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Elementary Transversality in the Schubert Calculus.
  Frank Sottile*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (959-14-163)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The structure sheaf of a quiver variety.
  Anders S Buch*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (959-14-190)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Toric Residues and Hypergeometric Functions.
  Eduardo Cattani*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
  (959-14-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Szpiro Inequality for Symplectic Lefshetz Pencils.
  Fedor A Bogomolov*, Courant Institute of Mathemaical Sciences
  (959-14-219)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 417, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Sorin Popescu, Columbia University psorin@math.columbia.edu
Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University lborisov@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Factorization of birational maps.
  Kalle Karu*, Harvard University
  (959-51-271)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rational points on algebraic surfaces.
  Yuri Tschinkel*, Princeton University
  (959-14-225)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Hard Lefschetz theorem and the topology of semismall maps.
  Mark Andrea A de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Luca Migliorini, University of Trento
  (959-14-154)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algebraic and geometric isomonodromic deformations.
  Charles F Doran*, Columbia University
  (959-14-168)

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