AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 21, 2007 00:32:16

2007 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Hoboken, NJ, April 14-15, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1026

• Saturday April 14, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens Building
  Organizers:
  Angela C. Gibney, University of Pennsylvania agibney@math.upenn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Koszul cohomology and moduli of Prym varieties.
    Gavril Farkas*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1026-14-217)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Linear algebra on quadrics.
    Izzet Coskun*, MIT
    (1026-14-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation.
    Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
    Josephine Yu*, UC Berkeley
    (1026-14-55)
• Saturday April 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens Building
  Organizers:
  Angela C. Gibney, University of Pennsylvania agibney@math.upenn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Gale duality via geometry.
    Nicholas J Proudfoot*, Columbia University
    Tom Braden, University of Massachusetts
    Anthony Licata, Yale University
    (1026-14-108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Graph curves: equations and automorphisms.
    David Swinarski*, Columbia University
    (1026-14-62)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Constructions on Polytopes inspired by a String Theory duality.
    Antonella Grassi*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1026-14-142)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A hierarchy of polytopes: toric Fano varieties.
    Alexander Mieczyslaw Kasprzyk*, University of New Brunswick
    (1026-14-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Linear resolutions of edge ideals.
    Noam Horwitz*, Cornell University
    (1026-14-164)
• Sunday April 15, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens Building
  Organizers:
  Angela C. Gibney, University of Pennsylvania agibney@math.upenn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells in the Grassmannian.
    Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea*, Duke University
    Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University
    (1026-14-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians.
    Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
    Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Duke University
    (1026-14-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cominuscule Schubert calculus and tableau combinatorics.
    Alexander Yong*, University of Minnesota
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
    (1026-14-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Divided difference operators for Grassmannians.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Michigan
    (1026-14-157)
• Sunday April 15, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens Building
  Organizers:
  Angela C. Gibney, University of Pennsylvania agibney@math.upenn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some combnatorial conjectures linked to the nested Hilbert scheme and the ring of diagonal coinvariants.
    James B Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
    Mahir Can, University of Western Ontario
    (1026-05-149)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Picard-graded Betti numbers and Cox rings.
    Antonio Laface, Queen's University
    Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University
    Mauricio Velasco*, Cornell University
    (1026-05-143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Cox ring of $\overline{M}_{0,6}$.
    Ana-Maria Castravet*, UMass Amherst
    (1026-14-223)