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

• 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)