AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:33

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Combinatorics, I
Room 2, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Laura M. Anderson, Binghamton University laura@math.binghamton.edu
Edward B. Swartz, Cornell University ebs@math.cornell.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Topological Obstructions to Graph Colorings.
  Dmitry N Kozlov*, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  Eric Babson, U Washington-Seattle
  (990-05-177)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homomorphisms of cycles and chromatic number.
  Eric Babson*, University of Washington
  Dmitry Kozlov, KTH
  (990-05-268)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Shifted simplicial complexes and algebraic shifting.
  Art M. Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
  (990-05-198)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial Properties of Shifted Complexes.
  Caroline J Klivans*, MSRI
  (990-05-247)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Catalan matroid.
  Federico Ardila*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  (990-05-250)

Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Combinatorics, II
Room 2, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Laura M. Anderson, Binghamton University laura@math.binghamton.edu
Edward B. Swartz, Cornell University ebs@math.cornell.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Stokes Theorem and the Minkowski Problem: A combinatorial perspective.
  Daniel A Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (990-52-224)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The homotopy types of Alexander duals.
  Xun Dong*, University of Miami
  (990-05-261)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Reflexive polytopes in dimension 2 and 3: the numbers 12, 24, and onion skins.
  Christian Haase*, Duke University
  (990-05-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  (The category of?) CD manifolds.
  Daniel K. Biss*, IAS & CMI
  (990-57-226)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Configurations of flats; manifolds of points in the projective line.
  Javier Bracho*, UNAM
  Jorge Arocha, UNAM
  Luis Montejano, UNAM
  (990-52-275)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Configuration of 4 lines in affine 3-space.
  Luis Montejano*, National University of Mexico
  Jorge Arocha, National University of Mexico
  Javier Bracho, National University of Mexico
  (990-52-274)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Combinatorics, III
Room 2, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Laura M. Anderson, Binghamton University laura@math.binghamton.edu
Edward B. Swartz, Cornell University ebs@math.cornell.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Unfolding convex polyhedral manifolds.
  Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota
  Igor Pak, MIT
  (990-52-279)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On face numbers of manifolds with symmetry.
  Isabella Novik*, University of Washington
  (990-05-114)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Inequalities for the h-vector and flag h-vector of geometric lattices.
  Ed Swartz, Cornell University
  Kathryn Nyman*, Texas A&M University
  (990-06-251)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Angle Sums of Polytopes: A new proof of Perles' result.
  Kristin A. Camenga*, Cornell University
  (990-05-214)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The angle defect for odd-dimensional simplicial manifolds.
  Ethan D. Bloch*, Bard College
  (990-52-148)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Combinatorics, IV
Room 2, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Laura M. Anderson, Binghamton University laura@math.binghamton.edu
Edward B. Swartz, Cornell University ebs@math.cornell.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A $GL_n(q)$-analogue of the partition lattice.
  Phil Hanlon, University of Michigan
  Patricia Hersh*, University of Michigan
  John Shareshian, Washington University in St. Louis
  (990-05-208)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A poset structure on multichains in the noncrossing partition lattice.
  Drew D Armstrong*, Cornell University
  (990-05-218)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the topology of multigraph picture spaces.
  Jeremy L Martin*, University of Minnesota
  (990-05-87)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Graphs, Syzygies and Multivariate Splines.
  Lauren L Rose*, Bard College
  (990-52-267)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Abelianizing the Real Permutation Action via Blowups.
  Eva-Maria E Feichtner*, ETH Zurich
  Dmitry N Kozlov, KTH Stockholm
  (990-51-176)

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