Special Session on Toric Algebraic Geometry and Beyond

AMS Central Fall Section Meeting, University of Akron, Akron, OH
October 20 - 21, 2012

Talks:

• A Tropical Approach to Computing Effective Cones, Florian Block (UC, Berkeley)
• On the Log Discrepancies in Toric Mori Contractions, Alexander Borisov (University of Pittsburgh)
• s-Lecture Hall Partitions, Self-Reciprocal Polynomials, and Gorenstein Algebras, Ben Braun (University of Kentucky)
• Ehrhart f*-vectors and hypergraph coloring complexes, Felix Breuer (San Francisco State University)
• Tropical complexes, Dustin Cartwright (Yale University)
• The maximum likelihood degree of a very affine variety, June Huh (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• Mutations of Laurent Polynomials and Flat Families with Toric Fibers, Nathan Ilten (UC, Berkeley)
• Tropical geometry and the Hodge theory of hypersurfaces, Eric Katz (University of Waterloo)
• A conjectural degree formula for subvarieties of spherical varieties, Gary Kennedy (Ohio State University)
• The combinatorial commutative algebra of conformal blocks, Chris Manon (UC, Berkeley)
• Jacobi Factors of Quasi-Homogeneous Plane Curve Singularities, Mikhail Mazin (Stony Brook University)
• Lattice-point generating functions for free sums of convex sets, Tyrrell McAllister (University of Wyoming)
• A degree formula for Borel orbit closures in the variety of complete conics, Jason Miller (Ohio State University)
• On the number of complement components of hypersurface coamoebas, Mounir Nisse (Texas A&M University)
• Extensions of toric varieties, Mesut Sahin (Çankırı Karatekin University)
• Orientability of real toric varieties and lower bounds for real polynomial systems, Jenya Soprunova (Kent Sate University)
• Multiplier Ideals of Certain Binomial Ideals, Howard M Thompson (University of Michigan, Flint)
• Short tops and semistable fibrations, Ursula Whitcher (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
• The Unreasonable Ubiquitousness of Quasi-polynomials, Kevin Woods (Oberlin College)
• On Syzygies and Singularities of Tensor Product Surfaces, Javid Validashti (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Tropical Severi Varieties and Applications, Jessie Yang (McMaster University)
• Stable Intersection of Tropical Varieties, Josephine Yu (Georgia Tech)