Schedule

All talks will be held in Room 002 of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, except for the parallel sessions, which will be held in Room 128

Monday, December 2

9:30-9:40 Opening

Morning Session

Chair: Gavril Farkas

9:40-10:30 Alex Suciu – Sigma-invariants, cohomology jump loci, and tropicalization

10:40-11:30 Marian Aprodu – Green’s conjecture and vanishing of Koszul modules

Afternoon Session

Chairs: Stephan Tillmann, Kentaro Saji, and Laurentiu Maxim

13:10–14:00 Antoni Rangachev – Zariski equisingularity and Lipschitz geometry

Hu He Han – Constant diameter and constant width for spherical convex bodies

14:10–15:00 Uli Walther – Lyubeznik numbers and topology

Shunsuke Ichiki – Characterization of generic transversality

15:20–16:10 Nero Budur – Jets, quivers, and SL_n(Z)

16:20–17:10 Ruibin Zhang – Equivalence between a category of framed tangles and a category of infinite dimensional representations of quantum SL(2)

18:00–20:00 Welcome Party in the Common Room (Room 222 on the second floor of the building of the Graduate School)

Tuesday, December 3

Morning Session

Chair: Anthony Henderson

9:40-10:30 Toshitake Kohno – Higher holonomy and iterated integrals

10:40-11:50 Mario Salvetti – On the K(π, 1)-conjecture for affine Artin groups

Afternoon Session

Chairs: Christin Bibby, Susumu Tanabe, and Mike Eastwood

13:10–14:00 Graham Denham – Singular loci of configuration hypersurfaces

Kentaro Saji – Contact like relation of vector fields and functions and its applications

14:10–15:00 András Lörincz – Categories of equivariant perverse sheaves

Shinichi Tajima – An implementation of the Suwa method for computing versal unfoldings of holomorphic foliations

15:20–16:10 Zhou Zhang – Complex Monge-Ampere equation with degenerate cohomology

16:20–17:10 Atsufumi Honda – Mixed type surfaces in Lorentzian manifolds

Wednesday, December 4

Morning Session

Chair: Marian Aprodu

9:40-10:30 Gavril Farkas – Topological invariants of groups via Koszul modules

10:40-11:50 Claudiu Raicu – An effective bound for the Chen ranks conjecture

11:40–12:00 Laurentiu Paunescu – Stefan Papadima—colleague and friend

Thursday, December 5

Morning Session

Chair: Claudiu Raicu

9:40-10:30 Stephan Tillmann – A cell-decomopsition of decorated moduli space of punctured surfaces

10:40-11:50 Dani Matei – Solvable and nilpotent quotients of 3-manifold and arrangement groups

Afternoon Session

Chairs: Graham Denham, Zhou Zhang, and Mario Salvetti

13:10 – 14:00 Joana Cirici – Cohomological operations on complements of subspace arrangements

Susumu Tanabe – Period integrals associated to an affine Delsarte type hypersurface

14:10 – 15:00 Christin Bibby – The "generating function" of orbit configuration spaces

14:10 – 15:00 Anthony Henderson – Braid groups of normalizers of reflection subgroups

16:20 – 17:10 Poster Session

In Room 056

18:00 – 20:00 Conference Dinner at Restaurant Kanran

Friday, December 6

Morning Session

Chair: Joana Cirici

9:40-10:30 Florian Pop – Variants of the Grothendieck–Teichmüller group

10:40-11:50 Laurentiu Maxim – Defect of Euclidean distance degree

Afternoon Session

Chairs: Ruibin Zhang and Dan Burghelea

14:10 – 15:00. Mike Eastwood – Some special geometries in dimension five

15:20 – 16:10 Takuro Abe – Free arrangements, combinatorics and geometry

16:20 – 17:10 Masahiko Yoshinaga – Icosidodecahedron and Milnor fiber of hyperplane arrangements