AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 21, 2007 00:26:11

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

Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The equivalence of the Jacobian, Dixmier and Poisson conjectures.
  Arno Richardus van den Essen*, Dept of Mathematics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  (1032-14-98)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Vanishing Conjecture on Differential Operators with Constant Coefficients.
  Wenhua Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, Illinois State University
  (1032-14-54)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Embeddings of affine space (preliminary report ).
  James K Deveney*, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (1032-13-99)

Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  $G_a$-actions and completions.
  Masayoshi Miyanishi*, Kwansei Gakuin University
  (1032-14-05)
- 4:00 p.m.
  In search of irreducible $G_a$-actions.
  Anthony J. Crachiola*, Saginaw Valley State University
  (1032-14-86)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometry of kernels of locally nilpotent derivations on a polynomial ring having slices.
  Kayo Masuda*, University of Hyogo
  (1032-14-13)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Density Property of Affine Algebraic Manifolds.
  Shulim Kaliman*, University of Miami, Department of Mathematics
  Frank Kutzschebauch, University of Bern
  (1032-14-82)

Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stable tameness of coordinates and automorphisms.
  Joost J Berson*, Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
  (1032-13-125)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stably Tame Polynomial Automorphisms.
  Sooraj Kuttykrishnan*, Washington University in St. Louis
  (1032-14-10)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Additive group actions on smooth affine surfaces and the instability of the Makar-Limanov invariant - Preliminary report.
  Adrien Dubouloz*, CNRS - Institut de Math\'ematiques de Bourgogne
  (1032-14-51)

Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Families of Affine Fibrations.
  Daniel Daigle, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa
  Gene Freudenburg*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
  (1032-14-62)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rigid rings, almost-rigid rings, and infinitely generated invariants.
  Stefan. Maubach*, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  (1032-14-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Projections Between Affine Cones of Grassmann Varieties and the Universality of Rank 6 Pl\"ucker Relations.
  Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
  (1032-14-06)

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