AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:31

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

Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties
Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah mikha@math.utah.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Monodromy representations and Szpiro type inequalities.
  Fedor A. Bogomolov*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (972-00-198)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Topology of Stein Surfaces.
  Selman Akbulut*, MSU
  Burak Ozbagci, MSU
  (972-57-143)

Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties
Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah mikha@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing Amoebas.
  Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley
  Thorsten Theobald, Technical University Munich
  (972-14-21)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Link theoretic invariants of real algebraic curves.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State university
  (972-57-101)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Lehmer's polynomial and isolated hypersurface singularities.
  Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University
  (972-14-166)

Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties
Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah mikha@math.utah.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On arrangements of a plane real quintic curve with respect to a pair of lines.
  Anatoly B. Korchagin*, Texas Tech University
  (972-14-10)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Mapping Class Group of $S^3\times S^3$.
  Nikolai A Krylov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (972-55-106)

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