AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40
2008 Fall Western Section Meeting
Vancouver, Canada, October 4-5, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1041
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Singularity Theory
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.