AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:45

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

Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, I
Room 1020, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst cattani@math.umass.edu
Alicia M. Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires alidick@dm.uba.ar
Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University laura@math.harvard.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Micro-support of solution sheaves of D-Modules.
  Teresa Monteiro Fernandes*, CAUL and Universidade de Lisboa
  (1002-58-149)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On computing the characteristic cycles of localizations.
  Josep \`Alvarez Montaner, Universitat Polit�cnica de Catalunya
  Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1002-14-90)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Elliptic Generalizations and Applications of Certain Important Summation and Transformation Identities for Multiple Hypergeometric Series.
  Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
  (1002-33-68)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Closed form summation of $C$-finite sequences.
  Curtis Greene, Haverford College
  Herbert S. Wilf*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1002-05-69)
- 10:00 a.m.
  New Lambert series formulas for 12 and 20 squares, and multiple basic hypergeometric series.
  Stephen C. Milne*, The Ohio State University
  (1002-11-235)

Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, II
Room 1020, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst cattani@math.umass.edu
Alicia M. Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires alidick@dm.uba.ar
Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University laura@math.harvard.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ranks of $A$-hypergeometric systems.
  Laura Felicia Matusevich*, University of Pennsylvania
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota
  Uli Walther, Purdue University
  (1002-14-84)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized A-hypergeometric systems and duality.
  Uli Walther*, Purdue University
  (1002-14-81)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The holonomic rank formula for $A$-hypergeometric system in the case where the rank of $A$ is three.
  Go Okuyama*, Hokkaido University
  (1002-14-75)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A differential operators approach to rank-jumps in hypergeometric systems.
  William N. Traves*, U.S. Naval Academy
  (1002-13-144)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Nonsolvability of Holonomic Systems of Equations by Quadratures.
  Askold Khovanskii*, University of Toronto, Independent University of Moscow and Institute for System Studies, Moscow
  (1002-35-131)

Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, III
Room 1020, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst cattani@math.umass.edu
Alicia M. Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires alidick@dm.uba.ar
Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University laura@math.harvard.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebraic functions as solutions of holonomic systems of partial differential equations.
  Alicia Dickenstein, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University
  Timur Sadykov*, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
  (1002-14-62)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Planar configurations and gkz-rationality.
  Alicia Dickenstein*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts
  (1002-14-70)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Picard-Fuchs differential equation for the $A_n$ family of Calabi-Yau varieties.
  H A Verrill*, Louisiana State University
  (1002-14-48)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Integral sub-variations of Hodge structure and moduli of Calabi-Yau complete intersections.
  Charles Doran*, University of Washington
  John Morgan, Columbia University
  (1002-14-227)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hypergeometric series and discriminant amoebas.
  Mikael Passare*, Stockholm University, Sweden
  (1002-33-203)

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