AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 28, 2007 00:31:19

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

Saturday April 21, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Invariant Theory, I
Room 202, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Yi Hu, University of Arizona yhu@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Higher Dimensional Generalizations of the Geometric Shafarevich Conjecture.
  Sandor J Kovacs*, University of Washington
  (1027-14-118)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The orbifold Chow ring of hypertoric Deligne-Mumford stacks.
  Yunfeng Jiang*, The University of British Columbia
  (1027-14-29)

Saturday April 21, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Invariant Theory, II
Room 202, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Yi Hu, University of Arizona yhu@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Noncommutative moduli spaces.
  Paul Hacking*, University of Washington
  (1027-14-115)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Variation of hyperplane sections.
  Michael A van Opstall*, University of Utah
  (1027-14-32)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Are Artin stacks locally quotient stacks?
  Jarod D. Alper*, Stanford University
  (1027-14-136)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Invariant Theory, III
Room 202, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Yi Hu, University of Arizona yhu@math.arizona.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Boundaries of the Kahler Cone of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
  Andrey Todorov*, UC Santa Cruz
  (1027-14-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The level-rank duality for non-abelian theta functions.
  Alina Marian, Yale University
  Dragos Oprea*, Stanford University
  (1027-14-17)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Invariant Theory, IV
Room 202, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Yi Hu, University of Arizona yhu@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Global quotient structure of moduli of orbifold stable maps.
  Hsian-Hua Tseng*, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
  (1027-14-77)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Toric schemes over a discrete valuation ring and applications to compactification of very affine varieties.
  Zhenhua Qu*, University of Texas - Austin
  (1027-14-171)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The infinitely near Borel-fixed points on the Hilbert scheme.
  Morgan P. Sherman*, California State University, Channel Islands
  (1027-14-132)

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