Algebraic Geometry Special Session
2008 Fall Eastern Section AMS Meeting
Middletown, CT, October 11-12, 2008


Preliminary schedule of talks

Saturday Morning

8:00-8:50  Mikhail Kapranov (Yale), TBA
9:00-9:50  Sukhendu Mehrotra (UMass), Deformations of Fourier-Mukai Equivalences   Abstract
10:00-10:50  Mark de Cataldo (Stony Brook), Filtrations in cohomology and geometry   Abstract

Saturday Afternoon

3:00-3:50 Jessica Sidman (Mt Holyoke), Syzygies of the secant varieties of curves   Abstract
4:00-4:50 Frederick van der Wyck (Harvard), Moduli spaces of curves with prescribed singularities   Abstract
5:00-5:50 David Smyth (Harvard), New Modular Compactifications of the Moduli Space of Curves   Abstract

Sunday Morning

8:00-8:50  Arend Bayer (Utah), TBA
9:00-9:50 Giancarlo Urzua (UMass), Simply connected random surfaces   Abstract
10:00-10:50 Paul Hacking (Washington), Exceptional bundles associated to degenerations of surfaces   Abstract

Sunday Afternoon

3:00-3:50 Aleksey Zinger (Stony Brook), From Gromov-Witten Invariants to Integer Counts   Abstract
4:00-4:50 Maksym Fedorchuk (Columbia), Moduli and enumerative geometry of curves on rational ruled surfaces   Abstract
5:00-5:50 Chenyang Xu (Princeton), Strong rational Connectedness of Smooth loci of log del Pezzo surfaces   Abstract



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