AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 19, 2005 00:56:25

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Geometry, I
Room 229, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
Mark Haiman, University of California Berkeley mhaiman@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Statistical mechanics, the commuting variety, and Springer theory for the Brauer algebra.
  Allen Knutson*, UCSD
  Paul Zinn-Justin, Universit� Paris-Sud, Orsay
  (1012-14-226)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Mirkovic-Vilonen Polytopes.
  Joel Kamnitzer*, American Institute of Mathematics / MIT
  (1012-05-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians.
  Anders Skovsted Buch*, Rutgers University
  Andrew Kresch, University of Warwick
  Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
  (1012-14-142)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Geometry, II
Room 229, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
Mark Haiman, University of California Berkeley mhaiman@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Combinatorial Formula for the (type A) nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomial.
  J. Haglund*, Ohio State University
  M. Haiman, UC Berkeley
  N. Loehr, William and Mary
  (1012-05-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cohen-Macaulayness of certain rings of invariants.
  V Lakshmibai*, Northeastern University
  P Shukla, Suffolk University
  (1012-14-99)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras.
  Shrawan Kumar*, UNC at Chapel Hill
  (1012-22-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Duality of pipe dreams and antidiagonals.
  Ning Jia, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  (1012-05-124)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Harmonic algebraic curves and noncrossing partitions.
  Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
  David Savitt, University of Arizona
  Ted Singer, Scarsdale, NY
  (1012-14-69)

Sunday November 13, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Geometry, III
Room 229, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
Mark Haiman, University of California Berkeley mhaiman@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Shelling totally nonnegative flag varieties.
  Lauren K Williams*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1012-05-19)
- 9:00 a.m.
  k-Tableaux and the k-Schur functions.
  J Morse*, University of Miami
  L Lapointe, Universidad de Talca
  (1012-05-224)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Schubert polynomials for affine Grassmannians.
  Thomas Lam*, Harvard University
  (1012-05-84)

Sunday November 13, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Geometry, IV
Room 229, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
Mark Haiman, University of California Berkeley mhaiman@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rook theory and classification of Schubert varieties.
  Michael Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
  Jeremy Martin, Kansas University
  Victor Reiner*, University of Minnesota
  (1012-05-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Last news about $r$-quasisymmetric polynomials.
  Francois Bergeron*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
  (1012-05-211)
- 4:00 p.m.
  r-QSYM is free over SYM.
  Adriano M. Garsia*, University of California San Diego
  Nolan Wallach, University of California San Diego
  (1012-05-83)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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