AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 29, 2006 00:28:48

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

Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, I
Room 203, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Critical loci of products of integral powers of linear forms.
  Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
  Alexander N. Varchenko, University of North Carolina
  (1017-14-179)
- 9:40 a.m.
  On nets and orthogonal Latin squares.
  Corey Dunn, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  Matt S Miller, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  Max D Wakefield*, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  Sebastian Zwicknagl, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  (1017-52-208)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Right-angled mock reflection groups.
  Richard Scott*, Santa Clara University
  (1017-57-202)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, II
Room 203, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Configuration spaces of algebraic varieties.
  Stefan Papadima*, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Bucharest
  Barbu Berceanu, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Bucharest
  Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague
  (1017-55-131)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The projective invariants of ordered points on the line.
  Benjamin J Howard*, University of Maryland College Park
  John J Millson, University of Maryland College Park
  Andrew Snowden, Princeton University
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
  (1017-14-37)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Configurations of points in $R^3$.
  Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
  (1017-57-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Moduli spaces and Coxeter operads.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1017-55-155)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Topological Criteria for $k-$Formal Arrangements.
  Stefan O Tohaneanu*, Texas A&M University
  (1017-52-55)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, III
Room 203, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The topology of the moduli space of marked genus 0 real curves.
  Pavel Etingof, MIT
  Andre Henriques, Muenster
  Joel Kamnitzer*, MIT/AIM
  Eric Rains, UC Davis
  (1017-55-36)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Higher-order Alexander invariants of plane curve complements.
  Laurentiu G Maxim*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Constance Leidy, University of Pennsylvania
  (1017-55-52)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Stiefel-Whitney characteristic classes of line bundles and graph colorings.
  Dmitry N Kozlov*, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  (1017-55-175)

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