Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:36

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Phoenix, AZ, January 7-10, 2004
Meeting #993

• Wednesday January 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, I
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
  Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH Zurich feichtne@math.ethz.ch
  Dmitry N. Kozlov, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Lower bounds in enumerative real algebraic geometry from sign-imbalanced posets.
    Frank Sottile*, University of Massachusettts/ MSRI
    Evgenia Soprunova, University of Massachusetts
    (993-14-1402)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    From nice ideals to nice initial complexes.
    Aldo Conca, University of Genoa
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
    Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington
    (993-13-1540)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Combinatorics of Rigid Molecules: the Molecular Conjecture and Protein Rigidity.
    Walter J. Whiteley*, York University
    (993-52-691)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quotients of spheres by tori.
    Edward Swartz*, Cornell University
    (993-57-1229)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Discrete Homotopy Theory for Graphs: New Results.
    Shelly Smith*, Arizona State University
    (993-05-124)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tropical Convexity.
    Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
    Bernd Sturmfels*, University of California at Berkeley
    (993-05-261)
• Wednesday January 7, 2004, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, II
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
  Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH Zurich feichtne@math.ethz.ch
  Dmitry N. Kozlov, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Symmetric and alternating groups as monodromy groups.
    Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    (993-05-1035)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Schubert polynomials and chains in the Bruhat order of the symmetric group.
    Richard P. Stanley*, M.I.T.
    (993-05-307)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Graph homomorphisms and chromatic number.
    Eric Babson*, University of Washington
    Dmitry N. Kozlov, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
    (993-05-1694)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Some new methods in the theory of m-Quasi-Invariants of $S_n$.
    A. M. Garsia*, U C S D
    N. Wallach, U C S D
    (993-05-720)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On face numbers of manifolds with symmetry.
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington
    (993-05-724)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The Markov Width of a Graph.
    Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
    Seth Sullivant*, University of California, Berkeley
    (993-05-1276)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    A Tutte polynomial for matrices.
    Joseph P. S. Kung*, University of North Texas
    (993-05-483)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The Kadison-Singer problem as a combinatorial question.
    Nik Weaver*, Washington University
    (993-05-151)
• Thursday January 8, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, III
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
  Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH Zurich feichtne@math.ethz.ch
  Dmitry N. Kozlov, Bern University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On the Edelman-Reiner conjecture.
    Hiroaki Terao*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
    (993-32-906)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Coxeter Complex for Shephard Groups.
    Anne V Shepler*, University of North Texas
    (993-05-1163)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Salvetti complexes as homotopy colimits.
    Emanuele Delucchi*, ETH Zürich
    (993-52-1522)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Resonance in positive characteristic and characteristic varieties of arrangements.
    Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    (993-13-1275)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The fundamental group and cohomology ring of the boundary of a line arrangement.
    Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University
    Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University
    (993-57-1305)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the decomposability of the holonomy Lie algebra of an arrangement.
    Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
    Alexander I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (993-52-1642)