AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Saturday, April 23, 2005 00:22:16
2005 Spring Western Section Meeting
Santa Barbara, CA, April 16-17, 2005
Meeting #1007
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Saturday April 16, 2005
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Saturday April 16, 2005, 7:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Foyer, Girvetz Hall -
Saturday April 16, 2005, 7:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Foyer, Girvetz Hall -
Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Curvature in Group Theory and Combinatorics, I
Room 2119, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Laura M. Anderson, State University of New York at Binghamton laura@math.binghamton.edu
Noel Patrick Brady, University of Oklahoma nbrady@math.ou.edu
Robin Forman, Rice University forman@math.rice.edu
Jonathan P. McCammond, University of California Santa Barbara jon.mccammond@math.ucsb.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Nested set complexes and spaces of trees.
Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
(1007-51-215) -
8:30 a.m.
The Bergman Complex of a Matroid.
Caroline Klivans*, University of Chicago
(1007-05-221) -
9:00 a.m.
CAT(0) Cubical Complexes in Group Theory.
Michah Sageev*, Technion
(1007-20-217) -
9:30 a.m.
The Action of Thompson's Group on a CAT(0) Boundary.
Daniel S Farley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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10:00 a.m.
Discrete Morse Theory and Hom complexes.
Dmitry N Kozlov*, ETH-Zurich
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10:30 a.m.
Discrete Morse theory and graph braid groups.
Lucas Sabalka*, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1007-20-157)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, I
Room 2120, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Yong, University of California Berkeley ayong@math.berkeley.edu
Allen Knutson, University of California Berkeley allenk@math.berkeley.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Polyhedral geometry in the McKay correspondence.
Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
(1007-14-197) -
8:30 a.m.
Stanley's convolution and Koszul duality for dual affine toric varieties.
Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Valery Lunts, Indiana University
(1007-14-149) -
9:00 a.m.
Ehrhart polynomials and stringy Betti numbers.
Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sam Payne*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(1007-14-228) -
9:30 a.m.
Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for hypertoric varieties.
Ben T Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
(1007-14-199) -
10:00 a.m.
Syzygies, multigraded regularity and toric varieties.
Milena Hering*, University of Michigan
Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
Greg Smith, Queens University, Ontario
(1007-14-163) -
10:30 a.m.
Cohomology of rational forms on toric varieties.
Anvar Mavlyutov*, Oklahoma State University
(1007-14-203)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphisms of Surfaces, I
Room 1116, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York aweaver436@aol.com
Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet turbek@calumet.purdue.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Automorphism groups of compact Riemann surfaces.
Gareth A. Jones*, University of Southampton
(1007-20-182) -
9:00 a.m.
Hyperelliptic Handlebodies.
Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY
(1007-20-92) -
9:30 a.m.
Trigonal Riemann surfaces with non-unique morphisms.
Milagros Izquierdo*, Link\"opings Universitet, Link\"oping, Sweden
Antonio Costa, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Daniel Ying, Link\"opings Universitet
(1007-20-102) -
10:00 a.m.
Hyperelliptic curves with reduced automorphism group $A_5$.
Tony Shaska*, University of Idaho
David Sevilla, Dpt. of Math., Stat. and Comput., University of Cantabria
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10:30 a.m.
Ramified normal coverings of hyperelliptic Klein surfaces.
Emilio Bujalance, Department of Pure Mathematics, UNED, Spain
Francisco-Javier Cirre*, Department of Pure Mathematics, UNED, Spain
Jose-Manuel Gamboa, Department of Algebra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(1007-14-138)
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