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Workshop and Special Session
Arrangements and Configuration Spaces
Workshop at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
April 21 and 24, 2006
Special Session at the
AMS Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Durham, New Hampshire
April 22-23, 2006
Organizers: Graham Denham and Alex Suciu
Schedule of Talks
 Friday, April 21
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Workshop 425, Shillman Hall
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10:00 - 10:50
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Sergey Yuzvinsky
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Special pencils of plane curves, multinets, and resonance varieties
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11:10 - 12:00
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Richard Rimányi
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Measuring degenerations of arrangements in equivariant cohomology
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2:30 - 3:20
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Eva Maria Feichtner
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Tropical discriminants
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3:40 - 4:30
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Daniel Cohen
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Boundary manifolds of line arrangements
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Saturday, April 22
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Morning Session 203, Murkland Hall
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9:00 - 9:30
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Michael Falk
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Critical loci of products of integral powers of linear forms
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9:40 - 10:10
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Max Wakefield
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On nets and orthogonal Latin squares
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10:20 - 10:50
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Richard Scott
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Right-angled mock reflection groups
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Saturday, April 22
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Afternoon Session 203, Murkland Hall
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2:30 - 3:00
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Stefan Papadima
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Configuration spaces of algebraic varieties
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3:10 - 3:40
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Benjamin Howard
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The projective invariants of ordered points on the line
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3:50 - 4:20
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Stefan Tohaneanu
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Topological criteria for k-formal arrangements
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4:30 - 5:00
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Satyan Devadoss
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Moduli spaces and Coxeter operads
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Sunday, April 23
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Morning Session 203, Murkland Hall
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9:00 - 9:30
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Joel Kamnitzer
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The topology of the moduli space of marked genus 0 real curves
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9:40 - 10:10
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Laurentiu Maxim
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Higher-order Alexander invariants of plane curve complements
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10:20 - 10:50
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Dmitry Kozlov
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Stiefel-Whitney characteristic classes of line bundles and graph colorings
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Monday, April 24
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GASC Seminar 509, Lake Hall
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10:00 - 11:00
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Eric Babson
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Matroid degenerations
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