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Special Sessions

Topics in Geometric and Algebraic Topology
and
Geometry and Topology of Arrangements of Hypersurfaces

Alba Iulia

Joint International Mathematics Meeting of the AMS and the RMS
June 27–30, 2013
Alba Iulia, Romania

Special Session on Topics in Geometric and Algebraic Topology
Organizers:  Stefan Papadima and Alex Suciu

* Thursday, June 27 Morning Session
12:00 - 12:50   Suyoung Choi Wedge operations and torus symmetries   [photo]
* Thursday, June 27 Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:50   Botong Wang Cohomology jump loci of quasi-projective varieties
16:30 - 17:20   Eric Babson A Resonance stratification for the Grassmannian
17:30-18:20   Daniel Matei Graphs, groups, homology
18:30-18:55   Dorin Andrica The circular Morse-Smale characteristic of a manifold
19:00-19:25   Anca Macinic On the second nilpotent quotient of higher homotopy groups for hypersolvable arrangements
* Saturday, June 29 Morning Session
12:00 - 12:50   Eriko Hironaka Geometric Fox calculus
* Saturday, June 29 Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:50   Toshitake Kohno  Quantum symmetry in homological representations of braid groups and applications
16:30 - 17:20   Thomas Koberda  Curve complex theory for right-angled Artin groups
17:30 - 18:20   Louis Funar Finite quotients of symplectic groups and mapping class groups
18:30 - 18:55   Filippo Callegaro  Braid cohomology, principal congruence subgroups and geometric representations
19:00 - 19:25   Paolo Bellingeri Groups of virtual and welded links
 

Special Session on Geometry and Topology of Arrangements of Hypersurfaces
Organizers:  Daniel Matei and Alex Suciu

* Friday, June 28 Morning Session
10:30 - 10:55   Takuro Abe Roots of characteristic polynomials and intersection points of line arrangements
11:00 - 11:25   Emanuele Delucchi Minimality of toric arrangements
11:30 - 11:55   Giovanni Gaiffi Real models of arrangements and polytopes
12:00 - 12:25   Botong Wang Cohomology jump loci of local systems
* Saturday, June 29 Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:50   Jean Vallès Generalised logarithmic bundles
16:30 - 17:20   José I. Cogolludo-Agustín  Alexander Polynomials and number theory over fields of functions
17:30 - 17:55   Hiroo Tokunaga Elliptic surfaces and Zariski pairs for conic-line arrangements
18:00 - 18:25   Daniele Faenzi Torelli problem for arrangements of divisors
18:30 - 18:55   Enrique Artal Bartolo Combinatorics and essential coordinate components of characteristic varieties of line arrangements
19:00 - 19:25   Max Wakefield Enumerative geometry of hyperplane arrangements
* Sunday, June 30 Morning Session
11:15 - 12:05   Michael Falk A combinatorial model for the Milnor fiber of the discriminant
* Sunday, June 30 Afternoon Session
14:30 - 15:20   June Huh A Lefschetz hyperplane theorem with an assigned base point
15:30 - 16:20   Graham Denham Modularity and the reciprocal plane