AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:40

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

Friday March 12, 2004, 8:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, I
Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Mahler measures of Alexander polynomials.
  Daniel S Silver, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (994-58-149)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Links and Lehmer's Question.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  (994-57-153)
- 10:15 a.m.
  New arithmetic invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Igor V Nikolaev*, Calgary
  (994-11-78)

Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, II
Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Hodge theory of algebraic maps.
  Mark Andrea Antonio de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Luca Migliorini, Univerity of Bologna
  (994-14-95)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Toric Koszul Duality.
  Tom Braden*, UMass, Amherst
  Valery Lunts, Indiana University
  (994-14-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Milnor Monodromy in the Perverse Category.
  David B Massey*, Northeastern University
  (994-32-112)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Calogero-Moser and KP systems.
  David Ben-Zvi*, University of Texas, Austin
  Thomas Nevins, University of Michigan
  (994-14-123)

Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, III
Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  On the growth of hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
  Ruth Kellerhals*, University of Fribourg
  (994-22-68)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On groups generated by two positive multi-twists.
  Chris Leininger*, Columbia University
  (994-51-12)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Presentation of orbifolds and equivariant algebraic topology.
  David S Metzler*, University of Florida
  Andre Henriques, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (994-55-127)

Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, IV
Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  q-Analogs of Multiple Zeta Functions and Multiple Polylogarithms.
  Jianqiang Zhao*, Eckerd College
  (994-11-21)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Formality of Complex Hypersurface Complements.
  Daniel Matei*, University of Tokyo, Japan
  (994-55-16)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The dimension of the Hilbert scheme of special threefolds.
  Gian Mario Besana*, DePaul University
  Maria Lucia Fania, Universita' degli Studi di L'Aquila
  (994-14-25)

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