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Special Session: Toric Varieties
Fall Eastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
Rutgers University, New Brunswick October 6-7, 2007


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Sat 9:00 Jessica Sidman Syzygies of varieties lying on toric varieties
Sat 9:30 Evgeny Materov Tate resolutions for products of projective spaces (slides)
Sat 10:00 Sonja Petrovic Algebraic properties of cut ideals (slides)
Sat 10:30 Paul Horja Triangulated categories and toric varieties
Sat 11:10-12:00 Tara Holm Act globally, compute locally: Localization in symplectic geometry
Sat 2:00-2:50 Mu-Tao Wang Isometric embeddings and quasi-local mass
Sat 3:00 Ezra Miller Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions (slides).
Sat 3:30 Howard Thompson On the multiplier ideals of a monomial curve
Sat 4:00 Christine von Renessee Combinatorial descriptions of the Mori cone of a toric variety (thesis)
Sat 4:30 Ivan Soprunov Lower bounds for the minimum distance of a toric code
Sat 5:00 Joseph Gubeladze Big Witt vectors and K-theory of toric varieties (slides).
Sat 6:00 Group dinner Location TBA
Sat 8:00-8:50 Sir Roger Penrose Einstein public lecture: Spacetime conformal geometry, and a new extended cosmology.
Sun 8:00 Alvaro Pelayo Maximal toric packings of symplectic-toric manifolds
Sun 8:30 Benjamin Nill Combinatorial aspects of mirror symmetry (slides)
Sun 9:00 Val Hower Z_2 Hodge spaces of fans
Sun 9:30 Eric Katz Localization on toric varieties and a new proof of Bernstein's theoremn
Sun 10:00 Tom Braden A ring structure on intersection cohomology of hypertoric varieties (slides)
Sun 10:30 Laura Matusevich Weyl closure of hypergeometric systems
Sun 11:10-12:00 Scott Sheffield Random metrics and geometries in two dimensions
Sun 2:00-2:50 Satyan Devadoss The topology of particle collisions
Sun 3:00 Greg Smith Quivers and toric varieties
Sun 3:30 Ben Howard A nice projective embedding for the geometric invariant theory quotients (P^1)^n/SL_2
Sun 4:00 Angela Gibney The moduli space of stable fat pointed curves of genus zero
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