AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:29

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 226, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 2:15 p.m.
  Projective line complexes and resonance varieties.
  Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  (984-51-199)
- 2:55 p.m.
  Equivariant Euler characteristics of Milnor fibres of reflection arrangements.
  Graham Denham*, University of Western Ontario
  Nicole Lemire, University of Western Ontario
  (984-20-237)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Graded Hecke Algebras.
  Anne V Shepler*, University of North Texas
  Arun Ram, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (984-20-202)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Some combinatorics of Orlik-Solomon algebras.
  David Forge*, lri - orsay
  (984-05-217)

Saturday March 15, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 226, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cell structures for arrangements.
  Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
  (984-57-225)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Completions of braid groups.
  Kevin P Knudson*, Mississippi State University
  (984-20-132)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Chow groups on complements of arrangements; a first step.
  Karl-Dieter S. Crisman*, University of Chicago
  (984-14-185)

Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 226, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Seiberg-Witten invariants and surface singularities.
  Andras Nemethi*, Ohio State University
  (984-14-192)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Modular transformations of the elliptic hypergeometric functions, Macdonald polynomials, and the shift operator.
  Laura J. Stevens*, UNC Chapel Hill
  (984-33-251)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Mock reflection groups and blow-ups of real hyperplane arrangements.
  Michael Davis, The Ohio State University
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Wroclaw University
  Richard A Scott*, Santa Clara University
  (984-57-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Associahedra in Tori and Projective Spaces.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (984-14-49)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 226, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gauss-Manin connections for arrangements.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Peter Orlik*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (984-32-89)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Deformations of complexified real arrangements.
  Kwai-Man Fan*, National Chung Cheng University
  (984-14-115)
- 11:20 a.m.
  Optimal trajectories for robots in the plane.
  Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
  (984-51-253)

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