Arrangements in Boston

A Conference on Hyperplane Arrangements

June 12-15, 1999, at Northeastern University

Titles of Talks

The talks were given in room 135CL, the Classroom Building

*Saturday, June 12
   9:10 - 10:00   Frederick Cohen On loop spaces of configuration spaces, and braid-like groups
   10:20 - 11:10   Michael Falk Quadratic algebras and line-closed matroids
   11:30 - 12:00   Jason Fulman Hyperplane arrangement and semisimple orbits
   2:00 - 2:50   Mina Teicher From arrangements to branch curves
   3:10 - 3:40   Graham Denham Local systems on an oriented matroid complement
   4:00 - 4:30   Henry Schenck The module of logarithmic p-forms of a locally free arrangement
   4:50 - 5:20   Anatoly Libgober First order deformations for rank one local systems with non vanishing cohomology
 

*Sunday, June 13
   9:10 - 10:00   Mario Salvetti Cohomology of Artin groups over local coefficients
   10:20 - 11:10   Günter Ziegler Cohomology algebras of subspace arrangements---the combinatorial approach
   11:30 - 12:00   Peter Orlik Arrangements and local systems
   2:30 - 3:20   András Szenes Iterated residues and Bernoulli sums
   3:40 - 4:10   Laura Anderson Polytopal bundle theory
   4:30 - 5:00   Daniel Matei Finite index subgroups of arrangement groups
   5:20 - 5:50   Mutsuo Oka Geometry of sextics and their dual curves
 

* Monday, June 14
   9:10 - 10:00   Alexandre Varchenko Quantization of geometry associated with the qKZ equation
   10:20 - 11:10   Luis Paris On surface braid groups
   11:30 - 12:00   Ruth Lawrence Sums and integrals over polytopes and quantum invariants
   2:00 - 2:50   Sergey Yuzvinsky Resolutions of ideals of polynomial and exterior algebras
   3:10 - 3:40   Eva Maria Feichtner On the cohomology of orbit configuration spaces of spheres
   4:00 - 4:30   Herbert Kanarek On the Gauss-Manin connection and hypergeometric representations of the pure braid group
   4:45 - 5:15   Stavros Garoufalidis Massey products as tree-level parts of 3-manifold invariants
 

* Tuesday, June 15
   9:10 - 10:00   Hiroaki Terao Flat connections arising from a family of arrangements
   10:20 - 11:10   Michael Kapovich On representation varieties of Artin groups, projective arrangements and the fundamental groups of smooth complex algebraic varieties
   11:30 - 12:00   Toshitake Kohno Braid group of the torus and elliptic KZ system
   2:00 - 2:50   Michel Jambu Hypersolvable arrangements
   3:10 - 3:40   Joseph Kung How to calculate characteristic polynomials if you must
   4:00 - 4:30   Henry Crapo Four planes
   4:45 - 5:15   Richard Stanley Hyperplane arrangements and interval orders
 

Titles of Posters

The Poster Session took place Sunday afternoon, in room 205CL, the Classroom Building

     Satyan Devadoss Tessellations of real moduli spaces
     Yukihito Kawahara The Mixed Hodge structure on the fundamental group of a complement of hyperplanes
     Stefan Papadima The universal finite-type invariant for braids, with integer coefficients
     Lee Rudolph Hyperbolic line arrangements, baskets, arborescent Seifert surfaces, generalized positive braids, and unfoldings
     Daniel Slilaty Hyperplanes arrangements and graph orientations
     Stephen Szydlik Milnor fiber complexes for Shephard groups
     Miguel Xicoténcatl Orbit configuration spaces and equivariant loop spaces
     Thomas Zaslavsky Supersolvable matroids of signed and biased graphs
 
 
Hyperplane Arrangements Conference Comments:  Alex Suciu
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