AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 9, 2010 00:31:51

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

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 2, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Combinatorics, I
Room 219, Carnegie Library
Organizers:
Laura Anderson, SUNY Binghamton
Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University plhersh@ncsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Characteristic Classes of Matroid Bundles and Applications.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  Laura Anderson, Binghamton University
  (1062-05-261)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Topological representation of matroids from diagrams of spaces.
  Alex Engstrom*, UC Berkeley
  (1062-57-224)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Complex Matroids.
  Emanuele Delucchi*, Universität Bremen
  Laura Anderson, Binghamton University SUNY
  (1062-05-203)

Saturday October 2, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topology and Combinatorics, II
Room 219, Carnegie Library
Organizers:
Laura Anderson, SUNY Binghamton
Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University plhersh@ncsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Chordal clutters and k-decomposability.
  Russ Woodroofe*, Washington University in St. Louis
  (1062-05-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The boolean complex of a Coxeter system.
  Kari Ragnarsson*, DePaul University
  Bridget Eileen Tenner, DePaul University
  (1062-05-118)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Topology and Combinatorics of linear quotients of spheres.
  Edward Swartz*, Cornell University
  (1062-05-197)

Sunday October 3, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Combinatorics, III
Room 219, Carnegie Library
Organizers:
Laura Anderson, SUNY Binghamton
Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University plhersh@ncsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Hyperbolic Coxeter groups and their finite simple cousins.
  Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1062-20-97)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Subgroup lattices of finite solvable groups.
  Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University
  John Shareshian*, Washington University
  Russ Woodroofe, Washington University
  (1062-05-253)
- 10:00 a.m.
  What does the $\gamma$-vector count?
  Eran Nevo, Ben Gurion University
  T. Kyle Petersen*, DePaul University
  (1062-05-40)

Sunday October 3, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topology and Combinatorics, IV
Room 219, Carnegie Library
Organizers:
Laura Anderson, SUNY Binghamton
Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University plhersh@ncsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Area relations in triangulations of a square.
  Aaron Abrams*, Emory University
  Jamie Pommersheim, Reed College
  (1062-14-167)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Homomorphisms from Out($F_n$) to Out($F_m$).
  Martin R. Bridson, Oxford University
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (1062-20-59)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Deformations of bordered Riemann surfaces and convex polytopes.
  Satyan L. Devadoss*, Williams College
  Timothy Heath, University of Michigan
  Cid Vipismakul, University of Texas, Austin
  (1062-57-146)