AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 6, 2006 00:24:07

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

Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Gr\"obner Bases, I
Room 108, Business
Organizers:
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and Fields Institute ayong@fields.utoronto.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Gr\"obner degenerations of subvarieties: subschemes vs. branchvarieties.
  Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
  Allen Knutson*, UCSD
  (1018-13-212)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Gr\"obner bases arising in the McKay correspondence.
  Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
  (1018-14-147)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Free resolutions from quivers of sections.
  Gregory G Smith*, Queen's University
  Alastair Craw, Stony Brook University
  (1018-14-225)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Hilbert scheme of 2-regular schemes.
  David Eisenbud, MSRI and UC Berkeley
  Sorin Popescu*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (1018-13-254)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Every codimension two normal toric ideal has a Cohen-Macaulay initial ideal.
  Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
  Pierre Dueck, UC Davis
  (1018-13-242)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Detecting total dual integrality and perfect graphs.
  Edwin O'Shea*, University of Washington
  Andr{\' a}s Seb{\" o}, Laboratoire Leibniz, IMAG, C.N.R.S., France
  (1018-05-160)

Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Gr\"obner Bases, II
Room 108, Business
Organizers:
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and Fields Institute ayong@fields.utoronto.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Secant varieties of rational homogeneous varieties.
  Joseph M Landsberg*, Texas A&M University
  (1018-14-185)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Local Neighborhoods of Schubert Varieties.
  Alexander Woo*, University of California at Davis
  Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota, Fields Institute
  (1018-14-266)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Tropical Implicitization.
  Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
  Jenia Tevelev, UT Austin
  Josephine Yu*, UC Berkeley
  (1018-14-234)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some progress on the Lex-Plus-Power conjecture.
  Giulio Caviglia*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1018-13-267)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Fibers of a Rational Map.
  David Eisenbud*, MSRI and UC Berkeley
  (1018-14-217)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Computing characteristic cycles of local cohomology modules.
  Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Josep \`Alvarez Montaner, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya
  (1018-14-151)

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