AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

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

Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry, I
Room 207, Silver Center
Organizers:
Julianna Tymoczko, University of Iowa tymoczko@umich.edu
Linda Chen, Ohio State University lchen@math.ohio-state.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Degenerations of $\overline{M}_{0,n}$ to toric varieties.
  Angela Gibney*, University of Pennsylvania
  Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
  (1036-14-149)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Embeddings of the moduli space of points on the projective line.
  Milena Hering*, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
  Benjamin Howard, University of Michigan
  (1036-14-127)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A natural smooth compactification of the space of elliptic curves in projective space.
  Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
  Aleksey Zinger, SUNY Stony Brook
  (1036-14-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Schubert geometry and jeu de taquin.
  Kevin Purbhoo*, University of Waterloo/MSRI
  (1036-14-164)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Toward a Type $B_n$ Geometric Littlewood-Richardson Rule.
  Diane E Davis*, Metropolitan State College of Denver
  (1036-14-105)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry, II
Room 207, Silver Center
Organizers:
Julianna Tymoczko, University of Iowa tymoczko@umich.edu
Linda Chen, Ohio State University lchen@math.ohio-state.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quantum cohomology and the periodicity of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for flag varieties.
  Izzet Coskun*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1036-14-55)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Giambelli formula for isotropic Grassmannians.
  Harry Tamvakis*, University of Maryland
  (1036-14-123)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Triality and symmetries of morphisms.
  Dave Anderson*, University of Michigan
  (1036-14-174)
- 4:00 p.m.
  K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians.
  Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
  Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Duke University
  (1036-14-187)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Affine tableaux approach to Macdonald polynomials, Gromov-Witten invariants and Schubert calculus.
  Jennifer Morse*, Math Department, Drexel University
  (1036-05-170)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry, III
Room 207, Silver Center
Organizers:
Julianna Tymoczko, University of Iowa tymoczko@umich.edu
Linda Chen, Ohio State University lchen@math.ohio-state.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Symplectic techniques in algebraic combinatorial geometry.
  Tara S Holm*, Cornell University
  (1036-53-186)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Schubert calculus and Bott-Samelson manifolds.
  Rebecca F Goldin*, George Mason University
  (1036-14-159)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Positivity in Equivariant Schubert Calculus: A Symplectic Approach.
  Catalin Zara*, University of Massachusetts Boston
  (1036-53-182)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hypertoric varieties and Gale duality.
  Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Anthony Licata, Stanford University
  Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon
  Ben Webster, IAS, Princeton
  (1036-14-101)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hyperkahler Kirwan surjectivity for quiver varieties: Morse theory and examples.
  Megumi Harada*, McMaster University
  Graeme Wilkin, Johns Hopkins University
  (1036-53-77)

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