AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 137, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst tevelev@math.umass.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:00 a.m.
  Deformations of Fourier-Mukai Equivalences.
  Sukhendu Mehrotra*, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  (1042-14-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Filtrations in cohomology and geometry.
  Mark de Cataldo*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (1042-14-69)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 137, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst tevelev@math.umass.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Syzygies of the secant varieties of curves.
  Jessica Sidman*, Mount Holyoke College
  Peter Vermeire, Central Michigan University
  (1042-14-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli spaces of curves with prescribed singularities.
  Frederick van der Wyck*, Harvard University
  (1042-14-172)
- 5:00 p.m.
  New Modular Compactifications of the Moduli Space of Curves.
  David Ishii Smyth*, Harvard University
  (1042-14-145)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 137, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst tevelev@math.umass.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stability conditions, wall-crossing and Donaldson-Thomas invariants.
  Arend Bayer*, University of Utah
  (1042-14-237)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Simply connected random surfaces.
  Giancarlo Urzua*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (1042-14-59)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Exceptional bundles associated to degenerations of surfaces.
  Paul Hacking*, University of Washington
  (1042-14-57)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 137, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst tevelev@math.umass.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  From Gromov-Witten Invariants to Integer Counts.
  Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton
  Aleksey Zinger*, Stony Brook
  (1042-14-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli and enumerative geometry of curves on rational ruled surfaces.
  Maksym Fedorchuk*, Columbia University
  (1042-14-194)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Strong rational Connectedness of Smooth loci of log del Pezzo surfaces.
  Chenyang Xu*, Math department, IAS
  (1042-14-170)

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