AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

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

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, I
Room B219, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison orlik@math.wisc.edu
Anne Shepler, University of California Santa Cruz ashepler@math.ucsc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Hodge filtration and the contact-order filtration of derivations of Coxeter arrangements.
  Hiroaki Terao*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  (980-32-118)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cohomology of wonderful compactifications and intersection theory on toric varieties.
  Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, ETH Zurich
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon
  (980-51-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Torsion in homology of Milnor fibres.
  D C Cohen, Louisiana State University
  G C Denham*, University of Western Ontario
  A I Suciu, Northeastern University
  (980-55-270)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bernstein-Sato polynomials and Milnor fibers of generic arrangements.
  Uli Walther*, Purdue University / MSRI
  (980-14-49)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The $\ell^2$-cohomology of hyperplane complements.
  Michael W. Davis*, The Ohio State University
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Wroclaw University and IM PAN
  Ian J. Leary, University of Southampton
  (980-57-103)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, II
Room B219, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison orlik@math.wisc.edu
Anne Shepler, University of California Santa Cruz ashepler@math.ucsc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Topological robotics and arrangement complements.
  Michael Farber, Tel Aviv University
  Sergey Yuzvinsky*, University of Oregon
  (980-55-104)
- 2:30 p.m.
  A-Theory and real linear hyperplane arrangements.
  Eric Babson, University of Washington
  Helene Barcelo*, Arizona State University
  Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Institute of Technology
  (980-05-302)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The line geometry of resonance varieties.
  Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  (980-51-204)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generating functions whose denominator is a hyperplane arrangement.
  Robin Pemantle*, Ohio State University
  (980-05-173)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Properties of arrangement groups.
  Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
  (980-57-213)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A simplified CW-Complex with the Homotopy-Type of the Complement of a Complexified Real Hyperplane Arrangement.
  Ken Jewell*, Edgewood College
  (980-55-310)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, III
Room B219, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison orlik@math.wisc.edu
Anne Shepler, University of California Santa Cruz ashepler@math.ucsc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On braid groups, free groups, and the loop space of the $2$-sphere.
  Frederick R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
  Jie Wu, National University of Singapore
  (980-55-184)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discrete models for algebraic invariants of spaces of polynomials.
  Dmitry N Kozlov*, U. Bern / KTH Stockholm
  (980-57-106)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Chen Lie algebras and combinatorics of arrangements.
  Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy
  Alexander I Suciu*, Northeastern University
  (980-20-170)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Reflection Groups, Mysterious Numerology, and the Coinvariant Algebra.
  Anne V Shepler*, University of North Texas
  (980-20-294)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discriminantal arrangements, critical points, and resonant local systems.
  Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University
  Alexander Varchenko, University of North Carolina
  (980-32-307)

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