Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 16, 2016 03:30:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1116

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Friday January 8, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 604, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Yaim Cooper, Harvard University yaim@math.harvard.edu
  Anand Patel, Boston College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Families of tautological relations.
    Aaron Pixton*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1116-14-1531)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hurwitz Correspondences on $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,N}$.
    Rohini Ramadas*, University of Michigan
    (1116-14-1505)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Projectivity of the moduli space of stable log-varieties.
    Sándor J Kovács*, University of Washington
    Zsolt Patakfalvi, Princeton University
    (1116-14-1509)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Limits of plane quintics via covers of stacky curves.
    Anand Deopurkar*, Columbia University
    (1116-14-1785)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Smoothability of Genus 6 Petri General Curves.
    Aaron Landesman*, Harvard University
    David Zureick-Brown, Emory University
    (1116-14-492)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 604, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Yaim Cooper, Harvard University yaim@math.harvard.edu
  Anand Patel, Boston College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Extremality of Weierstrass points on genus-two curves.
    Dawei Chen, Boston College
    Nicola Tarasca*, University of Utah
    (1116-14-1519)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Lines on Elliptic Calabi-Yau Threefolds.
    Francois Greer*, Stanford University
    (1116-14-2772)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On rationalizing divisors.
    Lorenzo Prelli*, University of Washington
    (1116-14-1529)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A moduli space of points in affine space as a Chow quotient.
    Noah Giansiracusa*, University of Georgia
    Patricio Gallardo, University of Georgia
    (1116-14-1202)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Deriving the Grothendieck ring of varieties.
    Inna I Zakharevich*, University of Chicago
    (1116-14-1803)