Schedule:


Northeastern Day: Friday 20 April 2018 (talks in 553 Lake Hall)
10:00-10:45 Laurentiu Maxim (Wisconsin) Mellin transformation, propagation and abelian duality (509-511 Lake Hall; part of A Day of Singularities)
11:00-11:15
coffee
11:30-12:15
Ben Knudsen (Harvard) Homology of surface and graph braid groups

lunch
2:15-3:00 Uli Walther (Purdue) Equivariant D-modules
3:15-4:00 Nero Budur (KU Leuven) Homotopy of singular algebraic varieties
4:15-5:00 Mario Salvetti (Pisa) Families of superelliptic curves and complex braid groups

More events at the AMS meeting.  In particular, please note that there will be a welcome reception which is included with the conference registration, but there is a deadline of April 18th to sign up.


Boston, by Nathaniel Dearborn (MFA Boston)


AMS Special Session: Saturday 21 April 2018 (talks in 153 Ryder Hall)
9:00-9:20 Takuro Abe Generators of logarithmic derivation modules of hyperplane arrangements
9:30-9:50
Ștefan Tohăneanu A blowup algebra of hyperplane arrangements
10:00-10:20
Eva-Maria Feichtner On a Leray model for Orlik-Solomon algebras
10:30-10:50 Laurentiu Maxim Topology of very affine manifolds

lunch
3:00-3:20
Christin Bibby Supersolvable posets
3:30-3:50
Nicholas Proudfoot Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids
4:00-4:20 Tom Braden Equivariant cohomology and intersection cohomology of a completion of a hyperplane arrangement
4:30-5:00 Michael Falk Higher resonance in the braid arrangement




AMS Special Session: Sunday 22 April 2018 (talks in 153 Ryder Hall)
9:00-9:20 Hal Schenck Permanental ideals and complexity theory
9:30-9:50 Anne Shepler Invariant derivations and differential forms for reflection groups
10:00-10:20 Robin Walters The Bernstein-Sato polynomial of a Weyl arrangement
10:30-10:50 Cynthia Vinzant Semi-inverted linear spaces

lunch
2:00-2:20
Emanuele Delucchi On posets of components of Abelian arrangements
2:30-2:50
 Tan Nhat Tran \(G\)-Tutte polynomials via arithmetics, combinatorics and topology
3:00-3:20
 Daniel Matei Aomoto-Betti numbers of matroids and finite geometries
3:30-3:50
 Daniel C. Cohen Some representations of arrangement groups
4:00-4:20
 Michael diPasquale A homological approach to freeness of multi-arrangements
4:30-4:50
 Peter Stiller Splines and vector bundles on projective spaces with relationships to hyperplane/hypersurface arrangements