AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:27

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

Friday March 30, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 339, Strong Hall
Organizers:
Christopher Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ukans.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Secants and Fulton's conjecture on the ample cone of the space of marked curves.
  Pete Vermeire*, Oklahoma State University
  (964-14-155)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hodge and Tate cycles on the moduli space of vector bundles.
  Donu Arapura*, Purdue University
  (964-14-102)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a problem of Raynaud for canonical curves.
  Mircea I Mustata*, U.C. Berkeley
  Mihnea Popa, University of Michigan
  (964-14-162)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Construction of vector bundles on Projective Spaces in positive characteristics.
  Mohan Kumar*, Washington University
  Chris Peterson, Colorado State University
  Prabhakar Rao, University of Missori, St. Louis
  (964-14-135)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Linear systems with multiple base points in $P^2$.
  Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Joaquim Ro\'e, Universitat de Barcelona
  (964-14-34)

Friday March 30, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 339, Strong Hall
Organizers:
Christopher Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ukans.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the analytic rigidity of $K$-trivial extremal contractions of smooth threefolds.
  Csilla Tam\'as*, Purdue University
  (964-14-123)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On a conjecture of Iitaka.
  Qi Zhang*, University of Missouri
  (964-14-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Resolution, Factorization and Toroidalization.
  Kenji Matsuki*, Purdue University
  (964-14-83)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Vanishing of differentials along ideals.
  Steven D Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
  Reinhold Huebl, University of Regensburg
  (964-14-129)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cohomology on toric varieties.
  Gregory G Smith*, UC Berkeley
  (964-14-127)

Saturday March 31, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 339, Strong Hall
Organizers:
Christopher Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ukans.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Detecting flat normal cones using Segre classes.
  Susan J Colley*, Oberlin College
  Gary Kennedy, Ohio State University at Mansfield
  (964-14-96)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Monomial Ideals and the Gorenstein Liaison Class of a Complete Intersection.
  Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
  Uwe Nagel, University of Paderborn
  (964-14-90)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Multiplicity at a singular point on a Schubert variety.
  Vankatramani Lakshmibai*, Northeastern University
  Victor Kreiman, Northeastern University
  (964-14-171)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Exterior algebra methods for the Minimal Resolution Conjecture.
  David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley
  Sorin Popescu*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Frank-Olaf Schreyer, University of Bayreuth
  Charles Walter, University of Nice
  (964-14-157)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Affine Surfaces Fibered By Affine Lines Over The Projective Line.
  David L Wright*, Washington University
  (964-14-113)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Milnor K-theory of smooth algebraic schemes.
  Reza Akhtar*, Miami University
  (964-14-229)

Saturday March 31, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 339, Strong Hall
Organizers:
Christopher Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ukans.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Brauer groups and quotient stacks.
  Dan Edidin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Brendan Hassett, Chinese University of Hong Kong/Rice University
  Andrew Kresch, University of Pennsylvania
  Angelo Vistoli, University of Utah, University of Bologna
  (964-14-95)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Optimal Bound for the Number of (-1)-Curves on Extremal Rational Surfaces.
  Mustapha Lahyane*, nternational Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste. Italy)
  (964-14-133)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Vertex algebras and the cohomology ring structure of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces.
  Wei-Ping Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Zhenbo Qin*, University of Missouri at Columbia
  Weiqiang Wang, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
  (964-14-45)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Better relations among Gromov-Witten invariants.
  Aaron Bertram, University of Utah
  Holger P Kley*, Colorado State University
  (964-14-154)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Normal Monomial Ideals.
  Les Reid, Southwest Missouri State University
  Leslie Roberts, Queen's University
  Marie A Vitulli*, University of Oregon
  (964-13-206)

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