AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2005 Fall Western Section Meeting
Eugene, OR, November 11-13, 2005
Meeting #1012

• 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, Université 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