AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37

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

Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Birational Geometry, I
Room 608, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Mirel Constantin Caibar, Ohio State University caibar@math.ohio-state.edu
Gary P. Kennedy, Ohio State University kennedy@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Higher elliptic genera.
  Anatoly Libgober*, Univerisity of Illinois at Chicago
  (1020-14-136)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Perverse bundles and CM spaces.
  Thomas Nevins*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1020-14-195)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A GIT construction of $\overline{M}_{0,n}(\mathbf{P}^r,d)$.
  Adam E. Parker*, Wittenberg University
  (1020-14-103)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The motive of the moduli stack of bundles over the universal curve.
  Donu Arapura*, Purdue University
  (1020-14-170)

Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Birational Geometry, II
Room 608, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Mirel Constantin Caibar, Ohio State University caibar@math.ohio-state.edu
Gary P. Kennedy, Ohio State University kennedy@math.ohio-state.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Local systems and multiplier ideals.
  Nero Budur*, IAS, Princeton / University of Notre Dame
  (1020-14-94)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Recent applications of multiplier ideals and arc spaces to the rationality problem.
  Tommaso de Fernex*, University of Utah
  (1020-14-246)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Invariants of singularities in positive characteristic.
  Manuel Blickle, University of Duisburg-Essen
  Mircea Mustata*, University of Michigan
  Karen Smith, University of Michigan
  (1020-14-203)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Celestial integration and birational invariants.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  (1020-14-142)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Birational Geometry, III
Room 608, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Mirel Constantin Caibar, Ohio State University caibar@math.ohio-state.edu
Gary P. Kennedy, Ohio State University kennedy@math.ohio-state.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the geometry of normal functions associated to high-degree hypersurface sections of a Calabi-Yau fourfold.
  C Herbert Clemens*, Ohio State University
  (1020-14-250)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fibered Calabi-Yau Varieties and Toric Varieties.
  Joshua P Mullet*, The Ohio State University
  (1020-14-214)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Birational Equivalence, Linear Systems, and Desingularization.
  Yasuyuki Kachi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
  (1020-14-260)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Resolution of singularities in characteristic zero.
  Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Purdue University
  (1020-14-97)

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