First Meeting Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009 Place: University of Southern California, Taper Hall of Humanities Room 102 Local Information: Parking, Directions, Restaurants Register Poster Speakers: Dan Dugger (UOregon) - ``Motivic stable homotopy groups" (Abstract) Tom Graber (CalTech) - ``Relative Gromov-Witten invariants and Local Gromov-Witten invariants" (Abstract) Ravi Vakil (Stanford) - ``The ring of invariants of n points on the projective line" (Abstract) Mihai Putinar (UCSB) - ``A duality approach to Positivstellensatze in real algebraic geometry" (Abstract) Streaming video (The talks will be webcast) Tentative Schedule: 10:00 - 11:00 Tom Graber 11:00 - 11:30 Break 11:30 - 12:30 Dan Dugger 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Ravi Vakil 15:00 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:30 Mihai Putinar 17:30 - ?? Dinner (Antequera de Oaxaca; 5200 Melrose Ave., SW corner of Melrose and Wilton) Register - please register so we know how many people to expect (there will also be a dinner afterwards) List of registered participants Organizers: Aravind Asok (USC) and Dragos Oprea (USCD) E-mail: So. Cal. Alg. Geom. |