American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 10, 2012 00:27:19

Associate secretaries:

Saturday March 3, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities, Stratifications and Their Applications, I
Room 307, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University t.gaffney@neu.edu
David Trotman, Université de Provence David.Trotman@cmi.univ-mrs.fr
Leslie Charles Wilson, University of Hawaii at Manoa les@math.hawaii.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebraic approximation of semianalytic sets.
  Massimo Ferrarotti, Politecnico di Torino
  Elisabetta Fortuna, Universita di Pisa
  Leslie Charles Wilson*, University of Hawaii
  (1078-58-348)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A'Campo curvature bumps near a singular point.
  S Koike, Department of Mathematics, Hyogo University of Teacher's Education, Hyogo, Japan
  T-C Kuo, The University of Sydney
  L Paunescu*, The University of Sydney, Australia.
  (1078-14-45)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Singularity theory for mappings on special semi-analytic stratifications.
  James N. Damon*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1078-58-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Openings of stable unfoldings.
  Goo Ishikawa*, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Japan.
  (1078-58-74)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Singularities of smooth mappings with patterns.
  Masatomo Takahashi*, Muroran institute of technology
  (1078-58-175)

Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities, Stratifications and Their Applications, II
Room 307, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University t.gaffney@neu.edu
David Trotman, Université de Provence David.Trotman@cmi.univ-mrs.fr
Leslie Charles Wilson, University of Hawaii at Manoa les@math.hawaii.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Chern classes of complements of free divisors.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  (1078-14-153)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Topology of the singular value sets of stable maps between surfaces.
  Takahiro Yamamoto*, Department of Housing and Interior Design, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University
  (1078-57-155)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Multiplicity of pairs of modules and singularities.
  Terence Gaffney*, Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University
  (1078-32-333)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:15 p.m.
  Geometry of orbit spaces of proper lie groupoids.
  Markus J Pflaum*, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
  Hessel Posthuma, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Xiang Tang, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
  (1078-58-16)
- 5:45 p.m.
  Primitive derivations, Shi arrangements and Bernoulli polynomials.
  Hiroaki Terao, Hokkaido University
  Daisuke Suyama*, Hokkaido University
  (1078-32-192)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities, Stratifications and Their Applications, III
Room 307, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University t.gaffney@neu.edu
David Trotman, Université de Provence David.Trotman@cmi.univ-mrs.fr
Leslie Charles Wilson, University of Hawaii at Manoa les@math.hawaii.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stratifications and topological invariants of singular hypersurfaces.
  Anatoly Libgober*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
  (1078-14-130)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mixed functions of strongly polar weighted homogeneous face type.
  Mutsuo Oka*, Department of Math., Tokyo University of Science
  (1078-32-64)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Exceptional lines, separating sets and vanishing topology at singular points of complex surfaces.
  Donal B O'Shea*, Mount Holyoke College
  (1078-14-126)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Higher order tangent spaces of an embedded complex manifold and Taylor projectors.
  Shuzo Izumi*, temporary Professor, Kinki University
  (1078-32-125)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Teissier's 1972 conjecture concerning the equimultiplicity of families of complex hypersurface-germs with constant Milnor number.
  Camille Plénat, Aix-Marseille University
  David J. A. Trotman*, Aix-Marseille University
  (1078-32-267)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities, Stratifications and Their Applications, IV
Room 307, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University t.gaffney@neu.edu
David Trotman, Université de Provence David.Trotman@cmi.univ-mrs.fr
Leslie Charles Wilson, University of Hawaii at Manoa les@math.hawaii.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Singularities of projective Gauss images of surfaces in Anti de Sitter 3-space.
  Liang Chen*, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, P. R. China.
  Shyuichi Izumiya, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  Masaki Kasedou, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  (1078-53-136)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Lightlike geometry of spacelike surfaces in Minkowski space-time.
  Shyuichi Izumiya*, Department of Matheamtics, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
  (1078-53-141)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:45 p.m.
  The families of Gauss indicatrices on Lorentzian hypersurfaces in pseudo-spheres in semi-Euclidean 4 space.
  Jianguo Sun*, Northeast Normal University
  (1078-51-118)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Whitney umbrellas and swallowtails.
  Takashi Nishimura*, Yokohama National University
  (1078-57-55)
- 5:45 p.m.
  Discussion