AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

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2009 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1047

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Special Session on Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics

• Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics, I
  Room 217, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Rinat Kedem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rinat@uiuc.edu
  Alexander T. Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ayong@uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    MV polytopes and components of quiver varieties.
    Joel Kamnitzer*, University of Toronto
    Pierre Baumann, Strasbourg
    (1047-14-155)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quiver Grassmannians.
    Alistair Savage*, University of Ottawa
    (1047-17-449)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rank functions and quiver representations.
    Ryan Kinser*, University of Michigan
    (1047-16-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fusion of affine Grassmannians.
    Peter Magyar*, Michigan State University
    (1047-22-484)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Charge=Height.
    Bogdan Ion*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1047-17-333)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Noncrossing partitions and the shard intersection order.
    Nathan Reading*, North Carolina State University
    (1047-05-353)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics, II
  Room 217, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Rinat Kedem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rinat@uiuc.edu
  Alexander T. Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ayong@uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The geometry and combinatorics of some special subvarieties of the flag variety.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    (1047-14-470)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cluster fans for quivers.
    Calin Ioan Chindris*, University of Iowa
    (1047-16-177)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Poisson Geometry of Directed Networks.
    Michael Gekhtman*, University of Notre Dame
    Michael Shapiro, Michigan State University
    Alek Vainshtein, University of Haifa
    (1047-05-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Higher Auslander algebras, cyclic polytopes, and analogues of tropical cluster algebras.
    Steffen Oppermann, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Hugh Thomas*, University of New Brunswick
    (1047-16-384)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Positivity results for cluster algebras.
    Gregg Musiker, MIT
    Ralf Schiffler, University of Connecticut
    Lauren Williams*, Harvard University
    (1047-05-412)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Q-systems and Cluster Positivity.
    Philippe R Di Francesco*, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay, France
    (1047-05-267)
• Sunday March 29, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics, III
  Room 217, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Rinat Kedem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rinat@uiuc.edu
  Alexander T. Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ayong@uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fusion rings over finite fields.
    Terry Gannon*, Math Dept, U of Alberta
    (1047-13-475)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Representations of double affine Lie algebras and finite groups.
    Nicolas Guay*, University of Alberta
    (1047-17-63)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Total positivity in loop groups I: whirls and curls.
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Michigan
    Thomas Lam, Harvard
    (1047-05-313)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The shifted plactic monoid.
    Luis G Serrano*, University of Michigan
    (1047-05-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bruhat order, smooth Schubert varieties, and hyperplane arrangements.
    SuHo Oh*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Alexander Postnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Hwanchul Yoo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1047-05-407)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Presenting the cohomology of a Schubert variety.
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
    Alexander Woo*, Saint Olaf College
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-05-280)
• Sunday March 29, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 217, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Rinat Kedem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rinat@uiuc.edu
  Alexander T. Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ayong@uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The shape of a pure O-sequence.
    Mats Boij, Royal Institute of Technology
    Juan C Migliore, University of Notre Dame
    Rosa M Miró-Roig, University of Barcelona
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    Fabrizio Zanello, Michigan Technological University
    (1047-13-476)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Monomial ideals with interesting properties.
    Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    Rosa Miro-Roig, University of Barcelona
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1047-13-147)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a minimal set of generators for the ideal of the diagonal locus of $(C^2)^n$.
    Kyungyong Lee, Purdue University
    Li Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-05-375)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Koszul incidence algebras, affine semigroups, and Stanley-Reisner ideals.
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Dumitru I. Stamate*, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy
    (1047-16-98)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stanley decompositions and squarefree monomial ideals.
    YiHuang Shen*, Purdue University
    (1047-05-25)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Cohomology of a Simple Normal Crossings Divisor and its Dual Complex.
    Parsa Bakhtary*, Purdue University
    (1047-14-398)

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