NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar

Spring 1999


Date Speaker Title
March 29 Andrei Zelevinsky 
(Northeastern University) 		Double Bruhat cells and groups generated by symplectic transvections 
April 5 Yuri Burman 
(Independent University of Moscow) 		Relative moduli spaces of complex structures: an example 
April 12 Alex Suciu 
(Northeastern University) 		Cohomology rings, nilpotent quotients, and resonance varieties 
April 20 Ruth Michler 
(University of North Texas) 		On the number of generators of the torsion module of differentials 
April 26 Henry Crapo 
(CAMS-EHESS) 		Littlewood-Richardson coefficents and their pictures 
May 3 Ravi Vakil
(MIT) 		Twelve points on the projective line 
May 10 Daniel Matei
(Northeastern University) 		Torsion in the homology of abelian coverings 
April 12 Hal Schenck 
(Northeastern University) 		A bundle attached to a punctual scheme of P2, and a construction of Schwartzenberger 
May 24 Steven Kleiman
(MIT) 		Enumerating singular curves on surfaces 
June 1 Patricia Hersh
(MIT) 		Posets of multiset partitions and lexicographic shellability 
June 7 Alfred Noël
(U. Mass. Boston) 		Centralizers of nilpotents and the Bala-Carter classification 
June 11 Dan Cohen
(Louisiana State University) 		Monomial braids 
June 21 M. S. Narasimhan
(ICTP, Trieste) 		Deformation of the tangent bundles of moduli spaces of vector bundles 

The Seminar is usually held on Mondays, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, in 509 Lake Hall.
For the announcement of a talk, click on the corresponding title.

Seminar organizers

Tony Iarrobino
iarrobin@neu.edu
Alex Suciu
alexsuciu@neu.edu
Andrei Zelevinsky
andrei@neu.edu

Seminar archive

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Math Seminars Web page:  Alexandru I. Suciu Started: April 22, 1998.  Last modified: Sept. 20, 1999
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