AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28

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

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

Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Revisiting triangular derivations of k[X,Y,Z].
  Daniel Daigle*, University of Ottawa (Canada)
  (1043-14-154)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of elliptic Poisson algebras.
  Leonid Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University
  Umut Turusbekova, Eurasian National University
  Ualbai Umirbaev*, Eurasian National University
  (1043-16-108)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topological aspect of the Jacobian conjecture.
  Teruo Asanuma*, Faculty of Science University of Toyama
  (1043-14-89)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Break
- 4:00 p.m.
  Embeddings of Danielewski hypersurfaces.
  Lucy Moser-Jauslin*, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
  Pierre-Marie Poloni, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
  (1043-14-23)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A note on $k[z]$-automorphisms in two variables.
  Eric Edo, University of New Caledonia
  Arno van den Essen*, Radboud University Nijmegen
  Stefan Maubach, Radboud University Nijmegen
  (1043-13-122)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Singular points of affine ML-surfaces.
  Ratnadha Kolhatkar*, Ottawa University
  (1043-14-114)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  StableTameness of Two-Dimensional Polynomial Automorphisms Over a Regular Ring.
  Joost Berson, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  Arno van den Essen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  David Wright*, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  (1043-14-22)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Revisiting a differential approach to the 2-variable Jacobian Conjecture.
  Hyman Bass*, University of Michigan
  (1043-13-131)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Russell's hypersurface from a geometric point of view.
  Karl-Heinz Fieseler*, Dept. of Math., Uppsala University, Sweden
  (1043-14-84)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Unipotent group quotients of affine varieties.
  Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan
  Gregor Kemper, Technical University Munich
  (1043-13-147)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic Dynamics and the Characterization of Finite Solvable Groups.
  Tatiana M Bandman*, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  (1043-14-18)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Shestakov-Umirbaev reductions and Nagata's conjecture on a polynomial automorphism.
  Shigeru Kuroda*, Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  (1043-14-78)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Relations between the Leading Terms of a Polynomial Automorphism.
  Stéphane Vénéreau*, Departement Mathematik, Basel University
  (1043-14-48)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The variety of plane polynomial automorphisms.
  Jean-Philippe Furter*, Univ. of La Rochelle (France).
  (1043-14-19)

Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Open Problems Raised by the Jacobian Conjecture.
  Wenhua Zhao*, Illinois State University
  (1043-13-164)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Cancellation Problem for the Koras-Russell cubic threefold.
  Adrien Dubouloz*, CNRS - Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne
  (1043-14-52)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Nagata automorphism is shifted linearizable.
  Stefan Maubach*, Radboud University Nijmegen
  (1043-14-54)
- 10:30 a.m.
  ${\mathbb A}^2$-Fibrations over the Affine Plane.
  Gene Freudenburg*, Western Michigan University
  (1043-14-210)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Proper algebraic actions of the additive group on complex four space.
  David R Finston*, New Mexico State University
  James K Deveney, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (1043-14-32)

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