AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

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

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, I
Room 203, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma.rider.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integral Structures, Toric Geometry, and Homological Mirror Symmetry.
  Charles Doran*, Columbia University and University of Washington
  John Morgan, Columbia University
  (997-14-95)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equivalences of derived categories and their mirror symmetric interpretation.
  R. Paul Horja*, University of Michigan
  Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (997-14-204)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized special Lagrangian torus fibrations for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
  Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (997-53-127)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, II
Room 203, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma.rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the moduli of certain Fano fourfolds.
  Walter L. Baily*, University of Chicago
  (997-14-152)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Crepant Resolutions of Calabi-Yau Orbifolds.
  Anda Degeratu*, MSRI/Duke University
  (997-53-210)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Orbifold Chow rings of toric Deligne-Mumford stacks.
  Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin
  Linda Chen*, Columbia University
  Gregory Smith, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (997-14-194)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hochschild homology of algebraic varieties and an extended TQFT.
  Andrei Caldararu*, University of Pennsylvania
  (997-14-202)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tangents to quadrics and nested Calabi-Yau varieties.
  Ciprian S. Borcea*, Rider University
  (997-14-150)

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