American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 19, 2011 00:24:29

Associate secretaries:

Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday March 12, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Poisson Geometry, I
Room 3204, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Yi Lin, Georgia Southern University yilin@georgiasouthern.edu
Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University, St. Louis
Francois Ziegler, Georgia Southern University
- 8:00 a.m.
  GKM-sheaves and equivariant cohomology.
  Thomas Baird*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  (1068-22-213)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mechanics and probablity.
  Renato Feres*, Washington University, St. Louis
  (1068-53-336)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Canonical classes and Schubert calculus in the symplectic category.
  Rebecca Goldin*, George Mason University
  Susan Tolman, University of IL, Champaign-Urbana
  (1068-51-228)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symplectic and spectral theory of semitoric integrable Systems.
  Alvaro Pelayo*, IAS and Washington University in St Louis
  (1068-53-248)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Singular reduction of generalized complex manifolds.
  Timothy E. Goldberg*, Lenoir-Rhyne University
  (1068-53-154)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the uniqueness of Hofer's geometry.
  Lev Buhovsky*, The University of Chicago
  Yaron Ostrover, Tel Aviv University
  (1068-51-192)

Saturday March 12, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Poisson Geometry, II
Room 3204, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Yi Lin, Georgia Southern University yilin@georgiasouthern.edu
Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University, St. Louis
Francois Ziegler, Georgia Southern University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Floer theory of cleanly intersecting immersed Lagrangians.
  Ken YK Chan*, University of Waterloo
  (1068-53-320)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Equivariant cohomology for Hamiltonian torus actions on symplectic orbifolds.
  Tomoo Matsumura*, Cornell University
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  (1068-51-54)
- 3:30 p.m.
  From double Lie groupoids to local Lie $2$-groupoids.
  Rajan Amit Mehta, University of Chicago
  Xiang Tang*, Washington Universiity, St. Louis
  (1068-53-218)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Morse theory for orbifolds and the Lefschetz hyperplane theorem.
  Daniel Halpern-Leistner*, UC Berkeley
  (1068-53-235)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Primary spaces.
  François Ziegler*, Georgia Southern University
  Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour, CNRS, France
  (1068-53-307)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cohomology rings of good contact toric manifolds.
  Shisen Luo*, Cornell University
  (1068-51-75)

Sunday March 13, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Poisson Geometry, III
Room 3204, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Yi Lin, Georgia Southern University yilin@georgiasouthern.edu
Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University, St. Louis
Francois Ziegler, Georgia Southern University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stability functions for Kaehler quotients with applications.
  Zuoqin Wang*, University of Michigan
  (1068-53-282)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Classification of multiplicity free Hamiltonian actions of algebraic tori.
  Ivan Losev*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1068-53-68)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian fibrations.
  Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
  (1068-53-287)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday March 13, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Poisson Geometry, IV
Room 3204, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Yi Lin, Georgia Southern University yilin@georgiasouthern.edu
Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University, St. Louis
Francois Ziegler, Georgia Southern University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:00 p.m.
  Divided difference operators in Kasparov's equivariant KK-theory.
  Ho Hon Leung*, Cornell Univesity
  (1068-19-309)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symplectic origami.
  Ana Cannas da Silva, Instituto Superior Tecnico
  Victor Guillemin, MIT
  Ana Rita Pires*, MIT
  (1068-53-176)