AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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)

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