AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, I
Room G 44, Donald P. Jacobs Center
Organizers:
Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Monodromy and Galois groups of Schubert problems.
  Ravi Vakil*, Stanford
  (1001-14-141)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mondrian tableaux and Littlewood-Richardson rules.
  Izzet Coskun*, M.I.T.
  (1001-14-106)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gr\"obner geometry of Schubert and Grothendieck transition formulae.
  Alexander Yong*, UC Berkeley
  Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley
  (1001-14-256)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Kogan's and Buch's problems via transition.
  Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
  Alexander Yong, UC Berkeley
  (1001-05-344)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Horn's Problem, Honeycombs and Vinnikov Curves.
  David E Speyer*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1001-22-425)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, II
Room G 44, Donald P. Jacobs Center
Organizers:
Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Experimentation in real Schubert calculus for flag manifolds.
  James Ruffo, TAMU
  Yuval Sivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Evgenia Soprunova*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Frank Sottile, TAMU
  (1001-14-273)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Applying Pieri Homotopies to compute dynamic output feedback laws.
  Yusong Wang*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1001-12-194)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lower bounds in some problems of real Schubert calculus.
  Alexandre Eremenko, Purdue University
  Andrei Gabrielov*, Purdue University
  (1001-14-65)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tranversality of non-general Schubert cycles.
  Brian Osserman*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1001-14-223)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians.
  Harry Tamvakis*, Brandeis University
  (1001-14-230)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, III
Room G 44, Donald P. Jacobs Center
Organizers:
Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equivariant cohomology of the Quot scheme.
  Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Linda Chen, Ohio State University
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
  (1001-14-324)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The T-equivariant cohomology of cell complexes and the case of infinite Grassmannians.
  Megumi Harada*, University of Toronto
  (1001-53-228)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Mirkovic-Vilonen cycles and polytopes.
  Joel Kamnitzer*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1001-22-307)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalizing group exponents using the topology of subvarieties of the flag variety.
  Julianna S Tymoczko*, University of Michigan
  (1001-14-428)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Some new results on Thom polynomials.
  Richard Rimanyi*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1001-14-321)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, IV
Room G 44, Donald P. Jacobs Center
Organizers:
Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Eigenvalue problems and a new product in the cohomology of flag varieties.
  Prakash Belkale*, Department of Mathematics UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
  Shrawan Kumar, Department of Mathematics, UNC Chapel Hill.
  (1001-14-295)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Horn-type Recursion for Minuscule Schubert Calculus.
  Kevin Purbhoo*, Fields Institute
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
  (1001-14-147)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Equivariant Quantum Schubert Calculus.
  Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea*, University of Michigan
  (1001-14-109)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A New Combinatorial Model for the Equivariant $K$-theory of $G/P$.
  Cristian P. Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
  (1001-22-53)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Degrees of Schubert varieties.
  Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
  (1001-05-383)

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