Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:57

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Sunday - Wednesday)
Meeting #1035

• Tuesday January 8, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, I
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho
  Anthony V. Geramita, Queen's University and University of Genoa
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Secant varieties of Grassmann and Segre varieties.
    Giorgio Ottaviani*, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
    (1035-14-607)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Secant varieties and polynomial interpolation.
    Maria Chiara Brambilla*, University of Florence (Italy)
    (1035-14-1510)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Fibers of a General Projection.
    David Eisenbud*, University of California, Berkeley
    Roya Beheshti-Zavareh, Washington University, St. Louis
    (1035-14-1498)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Secant varieties and optimal low-rank approximations of tensors.
    Vin de Silva*, Pomona College
    Lek-Heng Lim, University of California, Berkeley
    (1035-14-1942)
• Tuesday January 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, II
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho
  Anthony V. Geramita, Queen's University and University of Genoa
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Secant varieties and ideals.
    Luca Chiantini*, Universita' di Siena, Italy
    (1035-14-1184)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hilbert functions of fat points in P2 whose support is a pseudo-linear configuration.
    Susan Cooper, California Polytechnic State University
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Zach Teitler, Texas A&M University
    (1035-14-1113)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Comparing Powers and Symbolic Powers of Ideals.
    Cristiano Bocci*, ITIS A. Avogadro, Abbadia S.S., Italy
    Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    (1035-14-654)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity and normality of secant varieties.
    Peter Vermeire*, Central Michigan University
    (1035-14-275)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multisecants of surfaces in projective fourspace.
    Kristian Ranestad*, University of Oslo
    (1035-14-1089)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Rational normal curves in projective space.
    Enrico Carlini*, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
    Maria Virginia Catalisano, University of Genoa
    (1035-14-1021)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Secant varieties and statistical models.
    Elizabeth S. Allman*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    John A. Rhodes, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1035-60-1182)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Algebraic factor analysis.
    Mathias Drton, University of Chicago
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    Seth Sullivant*, Harvard University
    (1035-14-255)