AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:04

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 17, 1993, 9:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, I
Room 316, Just Hall
- 9:40 a.m.
  Fermionic sum representations for branching functions of affine Lie algebras.
  Timothy R. Klassen, Rutgers University, Piscataway
  Rinat Kedem, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  Barry M. McCoy*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  Ezer Melzer, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (881-81-182)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Characters, dilogarithm and TBA: The case of parafermion CFT.
  Tomoki Nakanishi*, Harvard University
  (881-81-180)

Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, II
Room 316, Just Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  On the BRST-algebraic structure in string theory.
  Bong Lian*, University of Toronto
  Gregg Zuckerman, Yale University
  (881-17-177)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras in quantum field theory.
  Albert S. Schwarz*, University of California, Davis
  (881-81-183)
- 4:25 p.m.
  Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and two-dimensional topological field theory.
  Ezra Getzler*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (881-55-174)
- 5:05 p.m.
  The Macdonald constant term conjecture.
  Ivan Cherednik*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (881-17-173)

Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, III
Room 137, Douglass Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Irreducible representations of affine superalgebras and number theory.
  Victor Kac*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Minoru Wakimoto, Mie University, Japan
  (881-17-175)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Representations of Kac-Moody algebras and quantum groups.
  David Kazhdan*, Harvard University
  George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (881-17-178)
- 10:20 a.m.
  A q-deformation of Wakimoto representation and the quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation.
  Atsushi Matsuo*, Nagoya University, Japan
  (881-81-176)

Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, IV
Room 137, Douglass Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  Introduction to W-algebras.
  Kareljan Schoutens*, Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University
  (881-81-179)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Semi-infinite cohomology of W-algebras.
  Peter Bouwknegt*, University of Southern California
  (881-81-172)
- 4:05 p.m.
  Dilogarithm identities, q-difference equations, and the Virasoro algebra.
  Edward Frenkel, Harvard University
  Andras Szenes*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (881-17-181)

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