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Workshop and Special Session

The Algebraic Geometry and Topology of
Hyperplane Arrangements

Northeastern University   College of the Holy Cross

Workshop at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
April 8 and 11, 2011

Special Session at the AMS Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Worcester, Massachusetts
April 9 and 10, 2011

Organizers:  Graham Denham and Alex Suciu

Schedule of Talks

* Friday, April 8 Workshop    Room 333, Curry Center
10:00 - 10:45   Pavel Etingof Topology of the moduli space of real algebraic curves of genus 0 with n labeled points
11:15 - 12:00   Mathias Schulze Logarithmic derivations and free divisors
2:15 - 3:00   Boris Okun Computing cohomology
3:15 - 4:00   Stefan Papadima Germs of cohomology jump loci
4:15 - 5:00   Masahiko Yoshinaga On the irreducibility of moduli spaces of line arrangements
* Saturday, April 9 Morning Session   Room 105, Beaven Hall
9:00 - 9:20   Takuro Abe Chambers and freeness of line arrangements
9:30 - 9:50   Hal Schenck Resonance varieties via blowups of P2 and scrolls
10:00 - 10:20   Hiroaki Terao The Shi arrangements and the Bernoulli numbers
10:30 - 10:50   Jessica Sidman Line arrangements modeling curves: equations and syzygies
* Saturday, April 9 Afternoon Session   Room 105, Beaven Hall
3:00 - 3:20   Nero Budur Complements and higher resonance varieties of hyperplane arrangements
3:30 - 3:50   Amanda Hager Derivation modules for arrangement bundles
4:00 - 4:20   Uli Walther Remarks on a conjecture of G. Lyubeznik
4:30 - 4:50   Daniel Cohen Pure braid groups are not residually free
5:00 - 5:20   Yaping Yang Homological finiteness of abelian covers
5:30 - 5:50   Priyavrat Deshpande Complexified arrangements of pseudo-hyperplanes
* Sunday, April 10 Morning Session   Room 105, Beaven Hall
8:30 - 8:50   Rongwei Yang Banach algebras and hyperplane arrangements
9:00 - 9:20   Max Wakefield On syzygies of the Jacobian ideal of a hyperplane arrangement
9:30 - 9:50   Mehdi Garrousian A geometric proof for the Solomon-Terao formula
10:00 - 10:20   Karola Mészáros Branched polymers and hyperplane arrangements
10:30 - 10:50   Daniel Matei Characteristic varieties of quasi-projective manifolds and orbifolds
* Sunday, April 10 Afternoon Session   Room 105, Beaven Hall
3:00 - 3:20   Matthew Miller A monoidal structure on the set of diagonal subspaces
3:30 - 3:50   Michael Falk Singular vectors for projective arrangements
4:00 - 4:20   Constance Leidy Calculating non-commutative topological invariants of line arrangements
4:30 - 4:50   Ivan Horozov Multiple Dedekind zeta functions
5:00 - 5:20   Kristopher Wiliams Parallel connections of line arrangements and the associated Milnor fiber
* Monday, April 11 GASC Seminar   Room 509, Lake Hall
12:15 - 1:15   Graham Denham The ubiquitous characteristic polynomial