AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, I
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cohen-Macaulay Properties for Groups of Equivalences and Consequences for Properties of Discriminants.
  James N Damon*, Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (979-32-176)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Computing characteristic classes of projective schemes.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  (979-14-35)

Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, II
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Topological structure of complex hypersurfaces of dimension 2.
  Dung Trang Le*, Universite de Provence
  (979-14-125)
- 3:35 p.m.
  The Denef-Loeser series for toric surface singularities.
  Monique H Lejeune-Jalabert*, CNRS LAMA Univ. Versailles St Quentin
  Ana J Reguera, Dpto. Algebra y Geometria Univ. Valladolid
  (979-14-27)
- 4:15 p.m.
  On local uniformization in arbitrary characteristic.
  Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann*, University of Saskatchewan
  (979-14-32)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, III
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equisingularity of sections, $t^r$ condition, and the integral closure of modules.
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Trotman, Universite de Provence
  Leslie Wilson*, University of Hawai`i
  (979-32-97)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Equisingularity and the multiplicity of a pair of modules.
  Terence Gaffney*, Northeastern University
  (979-32-75)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, IV
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
- 2:15 p.m.
  Lipschitz Stratifications and Generic Wings.
  Dwi Juniati, Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA), Indonesia
  David J. A. Trotman*, University of Provence
  Guillaume Valette, University of Provence
  (979-58-208)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Recent results on the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture.
  Francois Lucas, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
  James J. Madden, University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge
  Daniel Schaub, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
  Mark Spivakovsky*, Labo. de Math. E. Picard, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  (979-14-228)
- 3:55 p.m.
  Additive invariants of real varieties.
  Clint McCrory*, University of Georgia
  Adam Parusinski, University of Angers
  (979-14-77)
- 4:25 p.m.
  Betti numbers of semialgebraic and sub-Pfaffian sets.
  Andrei Gabrielov*, Purdue University
  (979-14-92)

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