AMS :: Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, December 14, 2018 03:30:05

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Applications, I
Room 102, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University jml@math.tamu.edu
Luke Oeding, Auburn University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Degrees of projections of rank loci.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  (1138-14-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Algorithms for orbit closure separation for invariants and semi-invariants of matrices.
  Visu Makam*, University of Michigan
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
  (1138-13-20)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Barriers for Rank Methods in Arithmetic Complexity.
  Rafael Oliveira*, University of Toronto
  Klim Efremenko, Ben Gurion University
  Ankit Garg, Microsoft Research New England
  Avi Wigderson, IAS
  (1138-68-300)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recoupling coefficients and quantum entropies.
  Matthias Christandl, University of Copenhagen
  Burak Sahinoglu*, California Institute of Technology
  Michael Walter, University of Amsterdam and Stanford University
  (1138-81-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the rank preserving property of special linear sections and its applications in tensors.
  Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
  Yang Qi*, University of Chicago
  (1138-15-166)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Applications, II
Room 102, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University jml@math.tamu.edu
Luke Oeding, Auburn University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Application of algebraic geometry in semi-definite positive problems.
  Jonathan Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
  Tingting Tang*, University of Notre Dame
  (1138-14-53)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Explicit Dimension Reduction for Varieties, and the Polynomial Identity Testing Problem.
  Michael A Forbes*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-68-181)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Open Problems Discussion.

Sunday April 15, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Applications, III
Room 102, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University jml@math.tamu.edu
Luke Oeding, Auburn University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Finite Free Resolutions and Root Systems.
  Jerzy M Weyman*, University of Connecticut
  (1138-14-190)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the $SL_2$ analogue of the Foulkes-Howe Conjecture.
  Abdelmalek Abdesselam*, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
  (1138-05-124)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Factorization for Deligne-Mumford stacks.
  Alicia Harper*, Brown University
  (1138-14-182)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Degeneracy loci and the degree of semidefinite programming.
  David E Anderson*, Ohio State University
  (1138-14-176)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conformal blocks for Galois covers of algebraic curves.
  Jiuzu Hong*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1138-12-151)

Sunday April 15, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Applications, IV
Room 102, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University jml@math.tamu.edu
Luke Oeding, Auburn University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Positivity in T-equivariant K-theory of flag varieties associated to Kac-Moody groups.
  Seth Baldwin*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (1138-14-128)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Growth Diagrams from Polygons in the Affine Grassmannian.
  Tair Akhmejanov*, Cornell University
  (1138-05-110)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Introduction to Spherical Tropicalization.
  Christopher Manon*, University of Kentucky
  (1138-14-196)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tight tensors.
  Austin Conner, Texas A&M University
  J.M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University
  Emanuele Ventura*, Texas A&M University
  Yao Wang, Texas A&M University
  (1138-14-171)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the tensor semigroup of affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras.
  Nicolas Ressayre*, Université Lyon 1
  (1138-22-159)