Special Session: Arrangements and Related Topics

American Mathematical Society · Spring Southeastern Meeting
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, March 28-30, 2008

Organizer:  Dan Cohen

   Friday, March 28
Afternoon Session Room 109, Tureaud Building
3:00 Hiroaki Terao On the free multi-arrangements
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3:30 Emanuele Delucchi Discrete Morse functions for complexified arrangements
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4:00 Daniel Matei Cohomology algebras of arrangements of plane curves
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4:30 Zach Teitler Multiplier ideals of hyperplane arrangements
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5:30 Amanda Hager A calculation of local system homology for discriminantal arrangements
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   Saturday, March 29
Morning Session Room 109, Tureaud Building
8:30 Masahiko Yoshinaga Generic section of a hyperplane arrangement and twisted Hurewicz maps
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9:00 Luca Moci Combinatorics and invariants of toric arrangements
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9:30 Daniel Matei Discussion of Which 3-manifold groups are Kähler groups? [Dimca-Suciu]
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10:00 Sangwook Kim Topology of real arrangements corresponding to shellable complexes
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10:30 Goderdzi Pruidze Topological complexity of basis-conjugating automorphisms of free groups
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   Saturday, March 29
Afternoon Session Room 109, Tureaud Building
3:00 Richard Randell Generating sets, discriminantal bundles and fundamental groups
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3:30 Michael J. Falk Arrangement groups and right-angled Artin groups
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4:00 Alexandra Pettet On the Johnson filtration of the automorphism group of a free group
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4:30 Akimichi Takemura Periodicity of hyperplane arrangements with integral coefficients modulo positive integers
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5:30 Max Wakefield The Jacobian ideal of a hyperplane arrangement
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   Sunday, March 30
Morning Session Room 109, Tureaud Building
8:30 Charles Egedy The second homotopy of line arrangements via pictures
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9:00 Graham Denham Free arrangements, nested sets, and zeroes of one-forms
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9:30 Stefan Tohaneanu The Orlik-Terao algebra and formal arrangements
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10:00 Frank Sottile Gale duality for complete intersections
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10:30 David G. Long Alexander and Thurston norms of E-N graph links
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11:00 Craig Jensen The center of some braid groups and the Farrell cohomology of certain pure mapping class groups
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Web page:  Dan Cohen Updated: April 1, 2008