AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, I
Room 109, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the free multi-arrangements.
  Hiroaki Terao*, Hokkaido University, Japan
  (1037-32-27)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discrete Morse functions for complexified arrangements.
  Emanuele Delucchi*, SUNY Binghamton
  (1037-05-115)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cohomology algebras of arrangements of plane curves.
  Jose Ignacio Cogolludo, Universidad de Zaragoza
  Daniel Matei*, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
  (1037-57-322)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Multiplier ideals of hyperplane arrangements.
  Zach Teitler*, Texas A&M University
  (1037-14-33)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discrete Morse theory and persistent homology.
  Kevin P Knudson*, Mississippi State University
  (1037-55-210)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A Calculation of Local System Homology for Discriminantal Arrangements.
  Amanda Hager*, University of Iowa
  (1037-22-113)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, II
Room 109, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generic section of a hyperplane arrangement and twisted Hurewicz maps.
  Masahiko Yoshinaga*, Kobe University
  (1037-55-91)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Combinatorics and invariants of toric arrangements.
  Luca Moci*, Roma Tre University, Italy - visiting at Berkeley University.
  (1037-05-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Which 3-manifold groups are K\"ahler groups?
  Alexandru Dimca, Universit\'e de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
  Alexander I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
  (1037-57-111)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Topology of real arrangements corresponding to shellable complexes.
  Sangwook Kim*, George Mason University
  (1037-05-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topological complexity of basis-conjugating automorphisms of free groups.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Goderdzi Pruidze*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (1037-20-152)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, III
Room 109, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generating sets, discriminantal bundles and fundamental groups.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Michael Falk, Northern Arizona University
  Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
  (1037-14-244)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arrangement groups and right-angled Artin groups.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  Richard Randell, University of Iowa
  (1037-20-363)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Johnson filtration of the automorphism group of a free group.
  Alexandra Pettet*, Stanford University
  Frederick Cohen, University of Rochester
  Aaron Heap, SUNY Geneseo
  (1037-20-218)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Periodicity of hyperplane arrangements with integral coefficients modulo positive integers.
  Hidehiko Kamiya, Faculty of Economics, Okayama University
  Akimichi Takemura*, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Univ. of Tokyo
  Hiroaki Terao, Hokkaido University
  (1037-05-133)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discrete Morse theory and poset maps with small fibers.
  Dmitry N Kozlov*, University of Bremen, Germany
  (1037-57-316)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Second Homotopy of Line Arrangements via Pictures.
  Charles R. Egedy*, Louisiana State University
  (1037-55-160)

Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, IV
Room 109, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:00 a.m.
  On configuration spaces in tropical geometry.
  Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, University of Bremen
  (1037-51-282)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Orlik-Terao algebra and formal arrangements.
  Hal Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne and Texas A&M University
  Stefan Tohaneanu*, University of Cincinnati
  (1037-52-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gale duality for complete intersections.
  Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
  Frederic Bihan, Universite de Savoie, Chambery, France
  (1037-14-70)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Alexander and Thurston norms of E-N graph links.
  David G. Long*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
  (1037-55-142)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The center of some braid groups and the Farrell cohomology of certain pure mapping class groups.
  Craig Jensen*, University of New Orleans
  Yuqing Chen, Wright State University
  Henry Glover, Ohio State University
  (1037-20-07)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Free arrangements, nested sets, and zeroes of one-forms.
  Graham Denham*, University of Western Ontario
  (1037-13-279)

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