Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:12

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Friday January 5, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, I
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Anne V. Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A spectral sequence stratification of cohomology jump loci.
    Hal Schenck*, Texas A&M University
    Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
    (1023-13-518)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Upper bound on the number of split fibers in a pencil of curves.
    Jorge V Pereira, IMPA
    Sergey Yuzvinsky*, University of Oregon
    (1023-14-796)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Resonant weights and critical loci of rational functions.
    Daniel C. Cohen, Lousiana State University
    Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
    Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    Alexander N. Varchenko, University of North Carolina
    (1023-14-1410)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Resonance: getting past $H^1$.
    Graham Denham*, University of Western Ontario
    Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
    (1023-13-1583)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-finiteness properties of fundamental groups of smooth projective varieties.
    Alexandru Dimca, Universit\'e de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
    Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
    Alexander I Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (1023-20-712)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topological invariants of singular complex hypersurfaces.
    Laurentiu G. Maxim*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1023-55-1006)
• Friday January 5, 2007, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, II
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Anne V. Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Deligne complexes and Artin groups.
    Ruth Charney*, Brandeis University
    John Crisp, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon
    (1023-20-462)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Relative Invariants : An Exterior Algebra.
    Vincent Beck*, Institut Mathematiques de Jussieu - Universite Paris 7
    (1023-20-503)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A symmetric function generalization of the Tutte polynomial.
    Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan
    (1023-05-936)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Lattice theory of the poset of regions, with applications to $W$-Catalan combinatorics.
    Nathan Reading*, North Carolina State University
    (1023-05-1097)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A problem about tilings of squares.
    Aaron D Abrams*, Emory University
    (1023-51-1571)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The Rauzy tiling and associated algebras.
    Alex Clark, University of North Texas
    Karin Erdmann, University of Oxford
    Sibylle Schroll*, University of Oxford
    (1023-16-615)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Logarithmic vector fields and truncated affine Weyl arrangements.
    Masahiko Yoshinaga*, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
    (1023-05-931)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Rational maps with the symmetries of complex reflection groups.
    Scott Crass*, CSU, Long Beach
    (1023-51-909)
• Saturday January 6, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, III
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Anne V. Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On the Heavyside functions of arrangements and the impossibility theorem by Kenneth Arrow.
    Hiroaki Terao*, Hokkaido University
    (1023-32-1880)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The $1 \bmod k$ partition poset and graph connectivity.
    John Shareshian, Washington University
    Michelle L. Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1023-05-1742)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Degeneration varieties and Macaulay inverse systems.
    Max D. Wakefield*, Hokkaido University
    (1023-13-1073)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The space of n ordered points on the line is cut out by simple quadrics if n is not six.
    Benjamin J Howard*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
    John Millson, University of Maryland College Park
    Andrew Snowden, Princeton University
    Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
    (1023-14-1068)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Freeness of Line-Conic Arrangements in $\mathbb{P}^2$.
    Stefan O Tohaneanu*, Texas A&M University
    Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
    (1023-52-1402)