AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:45

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 26, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 323, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Christopher Derek Hacon, University of California Riverside hacon@math.ucr.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Group-Cohomological field theories.
  Tyler Jarvis*, Brigham Young University
  (981-14-53)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule.
  Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
  (981-14-37)

Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 323, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Christopher Derek Hacon, University of California Riverside hacon@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Local Gromov-Witten theory of curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds and Topological Quantum Field Theory.
  Jim Bryan*, University of British Columbia
  (981-14-40)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Semisimple Frobenius manifolds and Witten's conjecture on spin curves and Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies.
  YP Lee*, University of Utah
  (981-14-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantum Chow rings of Deligne-Mumford stacks.
  Tom Graber*, UC Berkeley
  (981-14-82)

Sunday October 27, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 323, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Christopher Derek Hacon, University of California Riverside hacon@math.ucr.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Toward Arakelov-Parshin rigidity.
  Sandor J Kovacs*, University of Washington
  (981-14-59)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Flops of G-Hilb as moduli of representations of the McKay quiver.
  Alastair Craw*, University of Utah
  (981-14-41)

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