AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

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

Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, I
Room 110, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Projective geometry and topology.
  Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
  Darren Long, UCSB
  Morwen Thistlethwaite, Univesity of Tennessee at Knoxville
  (1019-51-35)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds as a Ball Quotient.
  Daniel Allcock, University of Texas (Austin)
  James A Carlson*, Clay Mathematics Institute
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
  (1019-14-130)

Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, II
Room 110, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the geometry of the moduli space of real binary octics.
  Kenneth Chung-kan Chu*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1019-53-103)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolicity and the geometry of submanifolds of $\Bbb P^n$ via symmetric differentials.
  Bruno N De Oliveira*, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami
  (1019-32-217)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, III
Room 110, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finite subgroups of arithmetic lattices in U(2,1).
  D B McReynolds*, Caltech
  (1019-22-175)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Property (FA) and lattices in SU(2,1).
  Matthew Stover*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1019-22-48)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, IV
Room 110, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Filtered ends of Kahler groups.
  Mohan Ramachandran*, Dept of Mathematics ,SUNY at Buffalo
  Terrence Napier, Dept of Math,Lehigh University
  (1019-32-206)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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