Special Session on The Modern Schubert Calculus
2000 Fall AMS Central Section Meeting
Toronto Ontario, Canada, 22-24 September 2000

Saturday, 23 September 2000
Time Speaker & Title
Morning
9:00- 9:20 Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan.
Stratified spaces formed by totally positive varieties
9:30- 9:50 Andrei Zelevinski, Northeastern University.
Connected components of real double Bruhat cells
10:00-10:20 Sara Billey, MIT.
Connections between singular loci and cohomology of Schubert Varieties
10:30-10:50 Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota.
Smooth Schubert varieties in partial flag manifolds
11:00-11:20 Stephanie van Willigenburg, Cornell University.
Isotropic Schubert calculus and polytopes

Afternoon
3:00- 3:20 Allen Knutson, University of California, Berkeley.
Descent-cycling in Schubert calculus
3:30- 3:50 Mikhail Kogan, Northeastern University.
A Littlewood-Richardson rule for multiplying Schur polynomials by certain Schubert polynomials
4:00- 4:20 Break
4:30- 4:50 Shawn Robinson, University of North Carolina.
Pieri's Formula for the $T$-Equivariant Cohomology of the Flag Variety
5:00- 5:20 Anders Buch, MIT.
A Littlewood-Richardson rule for the $K$-theory of Grassmannians



Sunday, 24 September
Time Speaker & Title
Morning
9:00- 9:20 James Carrell, University of British Columbia.
Equivariant cohomology and regular B-actions
9:30- 9:50 Rebecca Goldin, University of Maryland.
On Schubert Calculus in Symplectic Geometry
10:00-10:20 Break
10:30-10:50 Bill Graham, University of Georgia.
Positivity in equivariant Schubert calculus
11:00-11:20 Ezra N. Miller, MIT.
Gröobner geometry of formulae for (double) Schubert polynomials

Afternoon
2:00- 2:20 Linda Chen, Columbia University.
Quantum Cohomology of Flag Manifolds
2:30- 2:50 Andrew Kresch, University of Pennsylvania.
Standard conjectures for the arithmetic Grassmannian $G(2,n)$
3:00- 3:20 Break
3:30- 3:50 Michael Kleber, MIT.
Embeddings of Schur functions into types B/C/D
4:00- 4:20 Chris Woodward, Rutgers University.
Honeycombs and Facets of the Littlewood Richardson cone
4:30- 4:50 William Fulton, University of Michigan.
Eigenvalues of majorized Hermitian matrices and Schubert calculus