AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 4, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Singularity Theory, I
Room 103, Chemical and Biological Engineering Bldg
Organizers:
James B. Carrell, University of British Columbia carrell@math.ubc.ca
Patrick Brosnan, University of British Columbia brosnan@math.ubc.ca
Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia karu@math.ubc.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  Log canonical and Du Bois singularities.
  Karl E. Schwede*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  Sandor J. Kovacs, University of Washington
  Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan
  (1041-14-131)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic.
  Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
  (1041-14-104)

Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Singularity Theory, II
Room 103, Chemical and Biological Engineering Bldg
Organizers:
James B. Carrell, University of British Columbia carrell@math.ubc.ca
Patrick Brosnan, University of British Columbia brosnan@math.ubc.ca
Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia karu@math.ubc.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  $\Gamma$-sectors of an orbifold, Euler characteristics, and vector fields.
  Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
  Carla Farsi, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1041-22-140)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Shafarevich hyperbolicity for families over higher-dimensional base manifolds.
  Sándor Kovács*, University of Washington
  Stefan Kebekus, Universität zu Köln
  (1041-14-223)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Singularity Theory, III
Room 103, Chemical and Biological Engineering Bldg
Organizers:
James B. Carrell, University of British Columbia carrell@math.ubc.ca
Patrick Brosnan, University of British Columbia brosnan@math.ubc.ca
Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia karu@math.ubc.ca
- 9:00 a.m.
  Good moduli spaces for Artin stacks.
  Jarod Alper*, Columbia University
  (1041-14-282)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Functorial reconstruction theorems for algebraic stacks.
  Max Lieblich*, Princeton University
  Brian Osserman, University of California, Davis
  (1041-14-251)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org