AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday October 21, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 302, HSS Building
Organizers:
Caroline Melles, United States Naval Academy cgg@nadn.navy.mil
Ruth Michler, University of North Texas michler@unt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Introduction
- 9:10 a.m.
  A generalization of Chow's theorem for coherent sheaves of ideals.
  Caroline G Melles*, U. S. Naval Academy
  Pierre Milman, University of Toronto
  (958-14-226)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Using moment graphs to compute intersection cohomology.
  Tom Braden*, Harvard University
  Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study
  (958-14-197)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Complete Resolutions, Hsiang-Pati Coordinates, and the Nash Sheaf.
  Laura A Taalman*, James Madison University
  (958-14-209)

Saturday October 21, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 302, HSS Building
Organizers:
Caroline Melles, United States Naval Academy cgg@nadn.navy.mil
Ruth Michler, University of North Texas michler@unt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Invariant Subspaces of the Monodromy.
  David B Massey*, Northeastern University
  (958-32-159)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Interpolating characteristic classes of singular hypersurfaces.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  Jean-Paul Brasselet, IML - CNRS
  (958-14-228)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Topology of Milnor Fibers of Non-Isolated Singularities.
  Chunsheng Ban, The Ohio State University
  Lee J McEwan*, The Ohio State University
  Andras Nemethi, The Ohio State University
  (958-14-198)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Toric regularity.
  Gregory G Smith*, UC Berkeley
  (958-14-256)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 302, HSS Building
Organizers:
Caroline Melles, United States Naval Academy cgg@nadn.navy.mil
Ruth Michler, University of North Texas michler@unt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Introduction
- 9:10 a.m.
  New and old results on singular plane curves.
  Ruth I Michler*, UNT & Northeastern U.
  (958-14-276)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Tschirnhausen approximate roots and the Local Uniformization Theorem.
  Mark Spivakovsky*, University of Toronto and University of Toulouse
  (958-14-171)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Singularities of pairs via jet schemes.
  Mircea I Mustata*, University of California, Berkeley
  (958-14-239)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 302, HSS Building
Organizers:
Caroline Melles, United States Naval Academy cgg@nadn.navy.mil
Ruth Michler, University of North Texas michler@unt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multiplicity of a Noetherian Intersection and Resolution of Noetherian Singularities.
  Andrei Gabrielov*, Dept. Mathematics, Purdue University
  (958-14-125)
- 3:50 p.m.
  The algebraic curves package in Maple 6.
  Mark van Hoeij*, Florida State University
  (958-14-95)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Problem Session + Demo

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