Configuration Spaces: Geometry, Combinatorics and Topology

In collaboration with INdAM

2 May 2010 - 30 June 2010

Timetable

Weeks: [Wed 5 May - Thu 6 May] [Mon 10 May - Fri 14 May] [Mon 17 May - Fri 21 May] [Mon 24 May - Fri 28 May] [Mon 31 May - Fri 4 Jun] [Mon 7 Jun - Fri 11 Jun] [Mon 14 Jun - Fri 18 Jun] [Mon 21 Jun - Fri 25 Jun] [Mon 4 Apr - Mon 4 Apr]

Date	Time	Speaker	Room

Mon 21 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Registration	Segreteria
	10:00- 10:30	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	10:30- 11:30	Vergne, Michèle "Analytic continuation of polytopes, and Varchenko’s connection"	Aula Dini
	11:45- 12:45	Delucchi, Emanuele "Complex Matroids"	Aula Dini
	14:45- 15:45	Libgober, Anatoly "Applications of Hodge theory to cohomology of local systems"	Aula Dini
	15:45- 16:15	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	16:15- 17:15	Shareshian, John "Lower intervals in the Bruhat order and inversion arrangements"	Aula Dini
	17:30- 18:00	Moci, Luca "A Tutte polynomial for toric arrangements"	Aula Dini

Tue 22 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Budur, Nero "The monodromy conjecture for hyperplane arrangements"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:30	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	10:30- 11:30	Marin, Ivan "A Krammer representation for complex braid groups"	Aula Dini
	11:45- 12:45	Terao, Hiroaki "Combinatorial and algebro-geometric properties of free arrangements"	Aula Dini
	14:45- 15:45	Teicher, Mina "On Fundamental groups of complements of line arrangements"	Aula Dini
	15:45- 16:15	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	16:15- 17:15	Schenck, Hal "Equivariant Chow cohomology of nonsimplicial toric varieties"	Aula Dini
	17:30- 18:00	Garber, David "Some properties of a conjugation-free geometric presentation of fundamental groups of arrangements"	Aula Dini

Wed 23 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Ron, Amos "Splines at the crossroads of algebra, combinatorics, geometry and numerical analysis, or Introduction to zonotopal algebra I"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:30	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	10:30- 11:30	Holtz, Olga "Zonotopal algebra: the hierarchy"	Aula Dini
	11:45- 12:45	Varchenko, Alexander "Conformal blocks and equivariant cohomology"	Aula Dini

Thu 24 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Wachs, Michelle "On the representation of the symmetric group on the cohomology of the toric variety associated with the type A Coxeter complex"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:30	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	10:30- 11:30	Kohno, Toshitake "Quantum representations of mapping class groups and their images"	Aula Dini
	11:45- 12:45	Looijenga, Eduard "Hyperbolic structures on toric arrangement complements"	Aula Dini
	14:45- 15:45	Henderson, Anthony "Cohomology of real Coxeter toric varieties"	Aula Dini
	15:45- 16:15	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	16:15- 17:15	Cogolludo-Agustin, Jose Ignacio "Quasitoric decompositions of plane curves"	Aula Dini
	17:30- 18:00	Xicotencatl, Miguel "On mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces"	Aula Dini

Fri 25 Jun	9:00- 10:00	Matei, Daniel "Logarithmic sheaves and arrangements of hyperplanes"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:30	Coffee Break	Aula Dini
	10:30- 11:30	Cohen, Daniel C. "Some random complexes and associated spaces"	Aula Dini
	11:45- 12:45	Lehrer, Gustav "Hodge numbers, rational points and discriminant varieties"	Aula Dini