AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

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

Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on D-modules, I
Room 219, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hodge numbers and exponential sums on ${\mathbb P}^n$.
  Alan Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University
  Steven Sperber, University of Minnesota
  (1038-14-240)
- 9:30 a.m.
  p-adic analytic formulas for unit-roots of L-functions for exponential sums.
  Steven Sperber*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1038-14-170)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On 'maximal' poles of zeta functions, roots of Berstein-Sato polynomials and monodromy Jordan blocks.
  Willem Veys*, K.U.Leuven
  (1038-14-41)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Ramified Langlands Duality in Characteristic $p$.
  Thomas Nevins*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1038-14-05)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on D-modules, II
Room 219, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Critical modules of rings of differential operators of affine semigroup algebras.
  Mutsumi Saito*, Hokkaido University
  (1038-16-164)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Weyl closure of hypergeometric systems.
  Laura Felicia Matusevich*, Texas A&M University
  (1038-33-190)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rational hypergeometric functions in two variables.
  Eduardo Cattani*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin
  (1038-33-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bivariate rational hypergeometric functions and residues.
  Eduardo Cattani, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  Alicia Dickenstein*, Departamento de Matematica, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
  (1038-14-181)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Rank Jumps of $\mathcal{A}$-hypergeometric Systems.
  Christine Berkesch*, Purdue University
  (1038-14-237)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Connections between $\mathcal{D}$-modules and multiplier ideals.
  Nero Budur*, University of Notre Dame
  (1038-14-147)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on D-modules, III
Room 219, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lyubeznik numbers of projective schemes.
  Wenliang Zhang*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1038-13-226)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Normal Forms, K3 Surface Moduli, and Modular Parametrizations.
  Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri
  Charles F Doran*, University of Washington
  Jacob Lewis, University of Washington
  Ursula Whitcher, University of Washington
  (1038-14-197)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Characteristic variety of D-modules in positive characteristic.
  Josep Alvarez-Montaner*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  (1038-13-114)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Degree bounds for Gr\"obner bases in algebras of solvable type.
  Matthias Aschenbrenner, Univercity of California, Los Angeles
  Anton Leykin*, IMA, University of Minnesota
  (1038-13-56)

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