AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

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

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebra and Number Theory with Polyhedra, I
Room 108, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Christian Haase, Freie Universität Berlin Christian.Haase@math.fu-berlin.de
- 8:30 a.m.
  Volumes of matroid polytopes.
  Federico Ardila, SFSU
  Carolina Benedetti, Universidad de los Andes
  Jeffrey Doker*, UC Berkeley
  (1049-05-90)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bounds on lattice polygons and the classification of toric log Del Pezzo surfaces.
  Alexander M. Kasprzyk, IMSAS, University of Kent
  Maximilian Kreuzer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology
  Benjamin Nill*, Institute of Mathematics, Freie Universitaet Berlin
  (1049-52-143)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lattice Polytopes in polymake.
  Michael Joswig, TU Darmstadt
  Benjamin Mueller, FU Berlin
  Andreas Paffenholz*, FU Berlin
  (1049-05-145)
- 10:00 a.m.
  b-transshipments, modular flow reciprocity, and a combinatorial interpretation of the Tutte polynomial.
  Raman Sanyal*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1049-05-211)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The balanced minimum evolution polytopes.
  Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
  (1049-05-79)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebra and Number Theory with Polyhedra, II
Room 108, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Christian Haase, Freie Universität Berlin Christian.Haase@math.fu-berlin.de
- 3:00 p.m.
  Average Behavior of the Frobenius Numbers.
  Iskander Aliev, Cardiff University
  Martin Henk*, Universitaet Magdeburg
  (1049-52-84)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tiling lattices with translates of sublattices.
  Sinai Robins*, Nanyang Technological University
  James Propp, University of Massachussetts, Lowell
  (1049-52-152)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Growth series of cyclotomic and root lattices.
  Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University Mathematics Department
  (1049-05-190)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Finite Calculus Approach to Ehrhart Polynomials.
  Kevin Woods*, Oberlin College
  (1049-05-188)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Weighted Ehrhart Theory.
  Alan Michael Stapledon*, University of Michigan
  (1049-05-35)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Nowhere harmonic colorings of graphs.
  Benjamin J Braun*, University of Kentucky
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
  (1049-05-113)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebra and Number Theory with Polyhedra, III
Room 108, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Christian Haase, Freie Universität Berlin Christian.Haase@math.fu-berlin.de
- 8:00 a.m.
  Points of small height missing a union of varieties.
  Lenny Fukshansky*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1049-11-95)
- 8:30 a.m.
  52 years of the Hirsch conjecture.
  Francisco Santos*, Universidad de Cantabria
  (1049-52-209)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Subgraph Isomorphism through Polynomial Ideals and their relaxations.
  Jesus A De Loera*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
  (1049-52-202)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial bounds on nef cones.
  Diane Maclagan*, University of Warwick
  (1049-14-81)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Theta bodies for Polynomial Ideals.
  Rekha Thomas*, University of Washington
  Joao Gouveia, University of Washington
  Pablo Parrilo, MIT
  (1049-52-44)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Searching for Solution Curves of Polynomial Systems.
  Jan Verschelde*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1049-52-164)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebra and Number Theory with Polyhedra, IV
Room 108, Hensill Hall
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Christian Haase, Freie Universität Berlin Christian.Haase@math.fu-berlin.de
- 3:00 p.m.
  Toric specializations of the Rees algebra of Koszul cycles.
  H. Schenck*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  M Stillman, Math Dept, Cornell Univ.
  (1049-14-146)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hom, tenzor, Ker, and Coker constructions for polytopes.
  Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University
  (1049-52-108)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Toric ideals of nested configurations.
  Hidefumi Ohsugi*, Rikkyo University (JST CREST)
  (1049-13-147)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The caterpillar polytope and its relatives.
  Milena Hering*, University of Utah/MSRI
  Benjamin Howard, University of Michigan
  (1049-14-166)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Frobenius splittings for lattice polytopes.
  Sam Payne*, Stanford Universty and Clay Mathematics Institute
  (1049-05-165)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the Lefschetz Property for Vernonese Rings.
  Volkmar Welker*, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  Martina Kubitzke, Phlipps-Universität Marburg
  (1049-05-142)

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