AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:02

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday October 15, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 107, Fretwell Hall
Organizers:
Valery Aleexev, University of Georgia valery@math.uga.edu
William Graham, University of Georgia
Roy C. Smith, University of Georgia
Robert Varley, University of Georgia robert@math.uga.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Separation Conjecture in Real Algebraic Geometry.
  James J Madden*, Louisiana State University
  (949-14-172)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Fundamental groups of real algebraic varieties.
  Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University
  (949-14-127)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Representations of polynomials positive on semi-algebraic sets.
  Victoria Powers*, Emory University
  (949-14-161)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polygons with Prescribed Edges and Special Lagrangians in Calabi-Yau Manifolds.
  Ciprian S Borcea*, Rider University
  (949-14-137)
- 5:00 p.m.
  An application of commutative algebra to tiling theory.
  Kevin P Keating*, University of Florida
  (949-52-148)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Generalized Newton Puiseux Expansions and a conjecture of D. Daigle and G. Freudenberg.
  Avinash Sathaye*, University of Kentucky
  (949-14-197)

Saturday October 16, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 107, Fretwell Hall
Organizers:
Valery Aleexev, University of Georgia valery@math.uga.edu
William Graham, University of Georgia
Roy C. Smith, University of Georgia
Robert Varley, University of Georgia robert@math.uga.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The special subvariety of divisors associated to an \'etale double cover of curves: a factorization of the Prym map.
  Roy C Smith, University of Georgia
  Robert Varley*, University of Georgia
  (949-14-244)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Polarizations of Varieties and Constructions of Moduli Spaces.
  Amassa C Fauntleroy*, North Carolina State University
  (949-14-126)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Birational rigidity fo hypersurfaces on degree n in $P^n$.
  Ivan Cheltsov*, JHU
  (949-14-202)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An inductiv approach to log flips.
  Vyacheslav V Shokurov*, Johns Hopkins University
  (949-14-185)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday October 16, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 107, Fretwell Hall
Organizers:
Valery Aleexev, University of Georgia valery@math.uga.edu
William Graham, University of Georgia
Roy C. Smith, University of Georgia
Robert Varley, University of Georgia robert@math.uga.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Siegel Modular Variety of Degree Two and Level Three.
  J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State Univ.
  Steven H. Weintraub*, Louisiana State Univ.
  (949-14-19)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hodge Structures with Automorphisms.
  Bert van Geemen, Universita di Pavia, Italia
  Elham Izadi*, University of Georgia
  (949-14-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Characterization of Veronese varieties - in the framework of Alexeev--Shokurov.
  Yasuyuki Kachi*, The Johns Hopkins University
  (949-14-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Positivity in equivariant Schubert calculus.
  William Graham*, University of Georgia
  (949-14-135)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Forms with logarithmic poles and Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson's classes of singular varieties.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  (949-14-87)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Hypersurfaces and generalized deformations.
  John A Terilla*, UNC, Chapel Hill
  (949-16-118)

Sunday October 17, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 107, Fretwell Hall
Organizers:
Valery Aleexev, University of Georgia valery@math.uga.edu
William Graham, University of Georgia
Roy C. Smith, University of Georgia
Robert Varley, University of Georgia robert@math.uga.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Special Subschemes at a Cusp.
  Robert F Lax*, LSU
  (949-14-11)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Base loci of linear series and diophantine approximation.
  Michael J Nakamaye*, University of New Mexico
  (949-14-124)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Adeles and autoduality of the Jacobian.
  Richard M Crew*, University of Florida
  (949-14-105)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Weierstrass m-tuples and minimum distance of Goppa codes.
  Gretchen L Matthews*, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  (949-14-184)

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