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.-10:45 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)

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