AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2008 Spring Central Section Meeting
Bloomington, IN, April 5-6, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1038

• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Upper and lower bounds for nef cones.
    Angela C Gibney*, The University of Pennsylvania
    Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
    (1038-14-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extension theorems.
    Lawrence Man Hou Ein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Mihnea Popa, University Of Illinois at Chicago
    (1038-14-79)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Flops and ample cones of holomorphic symplectic fourfolds.
    Brendan Hassett*, Rice University
    Yuri Tschinkel, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1038-14-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Minimal Model Program.
    Paolo Cascini*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1038-14-97)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Title: Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic.
    Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1038-14-93)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Analytic extension of pluri-adjoint sections.
    Dror Varolin*, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1038-32-151)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformations of canonical pairs.
    Tommaso de Fernex*, University of Utah
    (1038-14-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometry of zeroes of polynomials.
    James McKernan*, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1038-14-35)