CMS Session

Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
2016 Winter Meeting of the CMS/SMC
Niagra Falls, ON, CA
3–4 December 2016.


Schedule
Speakers
Hiraku Abe, McMaster University. A Weyl character formula for Hessenberg varieties.
H. Praise Adeyemo, Fields-Perimeter Postdoc and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Equivariant Cohomology Theories and The Pattern Map.
Barbara Bolognese, Fields Institute. On the connectivity of dual graphs of projective curves.
Sandra di Rocco, KTH. Resurgence, Waldschmidt constants and Negative Curves.
Laura Escobar, Fields Postdoc and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The multidegree of the multi-image variety.
Angela Gibney, University of Georgia. Combinatorial aspects of conformal blocks on the moduli space of curves.
Nathan Ilten, Simon Fraser. Dual curves, Newton polygons, and tropicalization.
Lars Kastner, Fields Institute. Ext and Tor on two-dimensional cyclic quotient singularities.
Askold Khovanskii, University of Toronto. Resultant of Laurent Polynomials whose Newton Polyhedra are Developed.
Yoav Len, Fields Institute and the University of Waterloo A tropical Clifford's theorem.
Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick. Tree compactifications of the moduli space of genus zero curves.
Leonid Monin, University of Toronto. Newton Polyhedra Theory for Generically Inconsistent Systems of Equations.
Sam Payne, Yale University. Top weight cohomology of moduli spaces of curves.
Kristin Shaw, Fields Institute and Technische Uiversität Berlin. Non-existence of torically maximal hypersurfaces.
Greg Smith, Queen's University. Better Locally-Free Resolutions.
Nicola Tarasca, Fields Institute. Du Val curves and the pointed Brill-Noether theorem.
Martin Ulirsch, Fields Institute. Tropical and non-Archimedean geometry of toric stacks with a view towards twisted Losev-Manin spaces.
Robert Williams, Texas A&M University. Minkowski sums of algebraic varieties.
Alex Woo, University of Idaho. Interval Pattern Avoidance.

Organizers: Kiumars Kaveh and Frank Sottile