Arrangements of Hyperplanes

Workshop and Special Session

Schedule of Talks

Friday, November 3		Workshop (312, Math Building)
9:30 - 10:15	Sergey Yuzvinsky	The annihilators of the Orlik-Solomon ideals and the quadraticity of the Orlik-Solomon algebras
10:30 - 11:15	Mario Salvetti	Cohomology of Coxeter groups and Artin groups
11:30 - 12:15	Frederick Cohen	On choices of representations of braid groups, cohomology, and "braid-like" groups for manifolds of large dimension
2:30 - 3:15	Hiroaki Terao	Multiderivations of Coxeter arrangements
3:30 - 4:15	Richard Randell	Morse theory, Milnor fibers, and hyperplane arrangements
4:30 - 5:15	Toshitake Kohno	Bar complex of the Orlik-Solomon algebra
Saturday, November 4		Morning Session (207, Math Building)
8:40 - 9:05	Daniel Cohen	Triples of arrangements and local systems
9:15 - 9:40	Eva Maria Feichtner	Incidence combinatorics of model constructions
9:50 - 10:15	Mark de Longueville	The cohomology rings of complements of subspace arrangements
10:25 - 10:50	Graham Denham	Equivariant Euler characteristics of braid arrangements
Saturday, November 4		Afternoon Session (207, Math Building)
2:30 - 2:55	Anne Shepler	Shephard groups and the sign representation
3:05 - 3:30	José Cogolludo	Cohomology ring of the complement to rational arrangements and generalized Aomoto complexes
3:40 - 4:05	John Keaty	Constructing canonical generating sets for the module of A-derivations of an arrangement of hyperplanes and conditions determining freeness
4:15 - 4:40	Stephen Szydlik	Reflection groups and Milnor fiber complexes
4:50 - 5:15	Giovanni Gaiffi	Compactifications of real subspace and half-space arrangements
5:25 - 5:50	Michael Falk	Resonance varieties and fibered arrangements
Sunday, November 5		Morning Session (207, Math Building)
8:40 - 9:05	Daniel Matei	Resonance varieties and tangent cones to characteristic varieties
9:15 - 9:40	Kenneth Brown	Random walks and hyperplane arrangements
9:50 - 10:15	Raul Cordovil	A commutative algebra for oriented matroids
10:25 - 10:50	Edward Swartz	Matroids and quotients of spheres
11:00 - 11:50	Alexander Suciu	Topology of hyperplane arrangements (Invited Address)
Sunday, November 5		Afternoon Session (207, Math Building)
2:30 - 2:55	Laura Anderson	There is no tame triangulation of the infinite real Grassmannian
3:05 - 3:30	Diane MacLagan	Gröbner fans of codimension three lattice ideals
3:40 - 4:05	David Bessis	The other braid monoid
4:15 - 4:40	Michel Jambu	Deformations of hyperplane arrangements
4:50 - 5:15	Hal Schenck	Stability and jump loci for a family of bundles onP2