A Week of Singularities: April 17-22, 2018 An AMS Special Session + satellite events

Tuesday-Thursday, April 17-19: Lecture series by Bernard Teissier and Paolo Aluffi at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics

• Tuesday, April 17, 3-4pm, Bernard Teissier: "A geometric introduction to valuation theory via infinite dimensional algebraic geometry, Part 1"
• Tuesday, April 17, 4:30-5:30pm, Bernard Teissier: "A geometric introduction to valuation theory via infinite dimensional algebraic geometry, Part 2"
• Wednesday, April 18, 3-4pm, Bernard Teissier: "A geometric introduction to valuation theory via infinite dimensional algebraic geometry, Part 3"
• Wednesday, April 18, 4:30-5:30pm, Paolo Aluffi: "Segre classes and other intersection-theoretic invariants of singular schemes, Part 1"
• Thursday, April 19, 3-4pm, Paolo Aluffi: "Segre classes and other intersection-theoretic invariants of singular schemes, Part 2"
• Thursday, April 19, 4:30-5:30pm, Paolo Aluffi: "Segre classes and other intersection-theoretic invariants of singular schemes, Part 3"

abstract for Paolo Aluffi series

Friday, April 20: A Day of Singularities at Northeastern University

All talks in 509-511 Lake Hall, Northeastern University

• 10:00-10:45am: Laurentiu Maxim, "Mellin transformation, propagation and abelian duality" abstract
• 11:00-11:45am: David Trotman, "The smooth Whitney fibering conjecture and density of strongly topologically stable mappings" abstract
• 2:00-2:45pm: James Damon, "Schubert Decomposition and Topology of Milnor Fibers of the Varieties of Singular Matrices" abstract
• 3:00-3:45pm: Walter Neumann, "Characterizing Lipschitz Normal Embedding of Surface Singularities" abstract

Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22: AMS Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps at Northeastern University

• AMS sectional meeting web page
• Singularities of Spaces and Maps Special Session web page

Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps

• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps, I
  220, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Massey, Northeastern University d.massey@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson and motivic Chern classes of singularities.
    Richard Rimanyi*, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1139-14-360)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformation Formulas for Parametrizable Hypersurfaces.
    Brian Anderson Hepler*, Northeastern University
    (1139-14-348)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Segre zeta functions.
    Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
    (1139-14-177)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps, II
  220, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Massey, Northeastern University d.massey@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A new approach to rational singularities.
    Sándor J Kovács*, University of Washington
    (1139-14-33)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deficient conormal singularities and local volumes.
    Antoni K Rangachev*, University of Chicago
    (1139-14-548)
• Sunday April 22, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps, III
  220, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Massey, Northeastern University d.massey@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Chern Classes and Local Euler Obstruction of generic Determinantal Varieties.
    Xiping Zhang*, Florida State University
    (1139-14-435)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    GKZ-systems and mixed Hodge modules.
    Uli Walther*, Purdue University
    Thomas Reichelt, Universitaet Heidelberg
    (1139-14-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Key polynomials in simple extensions of valued fields and the local uniformization problem in arbitrary characteristic.
    Mark Spivakovsky*, CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
    (1139-14-372)
• Sunday April 22, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps, IV
  220, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Massey, Northeastern University d.massey@northeastern.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Zero dimensional valuations on equicharacteristic noetherian local domains.
    Bernard H. Teissier*, CNRS Paris
    (1139-14-89)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Geometry of quasianalytic classes.
    Edward Bierstone*, University of Toronto
    (1139-32-327)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Exceptional rays and bilipschitz geometry of real surface singularities.
    Leslie C Wilson*, University of Hawaii
    Donal O'Shea, New College of Florida
    (1139-14-200)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Which surface singularities are Lipschitz normally embedded?
    Anne Pichon*, Aix Marseille University, France
    Walter D Neumann, Columbia University, Barnard College, New York USA
    Helge Pedersen, Universidad Federal Do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil
    Filip Misev, Max Planck Institut, Bonn, Germany
    (1139-14-491)

David B. Massey
office phone: 617-373-5527
office: 529 Nightingale Hall
d.massey@northeastern.edu