AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 14, 2007 00:27:35

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

Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Toric Varieties, I
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Syzygies of varieties lying on toric varieties.
  Jessica Sidman*, Mount Holyoke College
  (1031-13-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tate Resolutions for Products of Projective Spaces.
  Evgeny Materov*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1031-14-97)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebraic properties of cut ideals.
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
  Sonja Petrovic*, University of Kentucky
  (1031-13-58)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Triangulated categories and toric varieties.
  R. Paul Horja*, Oklahoma State University
  Lev A. Borisov, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (1031-14-135)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Toric Varieties, II
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions.
  Shin-Yao Jow, University of Michigan
  Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota
  (1031-14-63)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the multiplier ideals of a monomial curve.
  Howard Thompson*, Spring Arbor University
  (1031-14-120)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Combinatorial descriptions of the Mori cone of a toric variety.
  Christine von Renesse*, Westfield State College, MA
  (1031-14-54)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Lower bounds for the minimum distance of a toric code.
  Leah Gold, Cleveland State University
  Ivan Soprunov*, Cleveland State University
  Jenya Soprunova, Kent State University
  (1031-14-75)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Big Witt vectors and K-thery of toric varieties.
  Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University
  (1031-19-53)

Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Toric Varieties, III
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Maximal toric packings of symplectic\--toric manifolds.
  Alvaro Pelayo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
  (1031-53-91)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial aspects of mirror symmetry.
  Benjamin Nill*, Research Group Lattice Polytopes, Freie Universitaet Berlin
  (1031-14-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Hodge spaces of fans.
  Valerie M Hower*, Wake Forest University Health Sciences/Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
  (1031-14-72)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Localization on Toric Varieties and a new proof of Bernstein's theorem.
  Eric E Katz*, University of Texas
  (1031-14-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A ring structure on intersection cohomology of hypertoric varieties.
  Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon
  (1031-14-31)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Weyl Closure of Hypergeometric Systems.
  Layra Felicia Matusevich*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
  (1031-13-18)

Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Toric Varieties, IV
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quivers \& Toric Varieties.
  Gregory G. Smith*, Queen's University
  Alastair Craw, University of Glasgow
  (1031-14-98)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A nice projective embedding for the geometric invariant theory quotients $(\mathbb{P}^1)^n /\!/ SL_2$.
  Milena Hering, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
  Benjamin James Howard*, University of Michigan
  (1031-14-128)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The moduli space of stable fat pointed curves of genus zero.
  Angela C Gibney*, University of Pennsylvania
  Diane Maclagan, University of Rutgers and the University of Warwick
  (1031-14-99)

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