AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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2002 Spring Western Section Meeting
Portland, OR, June 20-22, 2002
Meeting #978

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

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AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics

• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, I
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Vector configurations and toric varieties.
    Gregory G Smith*, Barnard College
    (978-14-117)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics and Quotients of Toric Varieties.
    Yi Hu*, University of Arizona
    (978-05-106)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Cohomology of wonderful compactifications and intersection theory on toric varieties.
    Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, ETH Zurich
    Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon
    (978-51-100)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A simple formula for the Todd class of a toric variety (that sometimes works). Preliminary Report.
    Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
    Hugh Thomas*, University of Western Ontario
    (978-14-53)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, II
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On orbifold cohomology.
    Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
    (978-14-91)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Stable reductive varieties.
    Valery Alexeev*, University of Georgia
    (978-14-85)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Wonderful blowups associated to group actions.
    Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University
    Paul E. Gunnells*, University of Massachusetts
    (978-14-30)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Affine approach to quantum Schubert calculus.
    Alexander Postnikov*, M.I.T.
    (978-05-78)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    $X^2=0$ and upper triangular matrices.
    Brian David Rothbach*, U.C. Berkeley
    (978-05-115)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, III
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Chen ranks of arrangements.
    Alexander I Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (978-20-112)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Linearity of resonance components in characteristic $p$.
    Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    (978-14-94)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A B\'ezout-type formula for bivariate hypergeometric systems.
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, UC Berkeley
    Timur Sadykov, Stockholm University
    (978-14-57)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A short simplicial h-vector and the Upper Bound Theorem.
    Patricia L Hersh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (978-05-43)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discrete models for algebraic invariants of spaces of polynomials.
    Dmitry N Kozlov*, Bern University/KTH Stockholm
    (978-57-71)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians.
    Anders S. Buch*, M.I.T.
    Andrew Kresch, University of Pennsylvania
    Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
    (978-14-124)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Period Integrals and Feynman diagrams.
    Prakash Belkale, University of Utah
    Patrick G Brosnan*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (978-14-86)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Eliminating Two Variables from Three Sparse Unmixed Polynomial Equations.
    Amit Khetan*, University of California Berkeley
    (978-14-116)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Schubert calculus on Grassmannians, via puzzles: ordinary, equivariant, K-theory, and quantum.
    Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
    Terence Tao, UCLA
    (978-14-127)

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