AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:11

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 18, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 215, Business and Economics
- 8:30 a.m.
  K3 surfaces with involution and mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
  Ciprian Borcea*, Rider College
  (890-14-39)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Fibrations on Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  Antonella Grassi*, University of Pennsylvania
  (890-14-93)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Mirror symmetry for elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds with constant J-invariant.
  Mark W. Gross*, Cornell University, Ithaca
  (890-14-144)

Friday March 18, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 215, Business and Economics
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces in weighted projective space and topological couplings.
  Per Berglund*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University
  (890-14-95)
- 3:20 p.m.
  The nonlinear K\"ahler form in quantum geometry.
  Paul S. Aspinwall*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (890-14-68)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Weil-Petersson completions of moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
  Paul S. Green, University of Maryland, College Park
  Yoshiko Hayakawa*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (890-14-84)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry for a hypersurface in a toric variety.
  M. Ronen Plesser*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (890-14-94)

Saturday March 19, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 215, Business and Economics
- 8:30 a.m.
  The mirror symmetry of n-folds with K=) may nevertheless be trivial.
  Tristan H\"ubsch*, Howard University
  (890-14-140)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Duality symmetries in string theory.
  Xenia C. de la Ossa*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (890-14-147)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Less is more: On the moduli space of (0,2) SCFTs.
  Jacques Distler*, Princeton University
  (890-14-160)

Saturday March 19, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 215, Business and Economics
- 2:30 p.m.
  Theta functions of Calabi-Yau integrable systems.
  Ron Donagi*, University of Pennsylvania
  (890-14-148)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Calculation of Gromov-Witten invariants via excess intersection theory.
  Sheldon Katz*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (890-14-130)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  A mathematics theory of quantum cohomology.
  Yongbin Ruan*, University of Utah
  Gang Tian, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (890-53-139)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Quantum field theory methods in counting holomorphic curves.
  Michael Bershadsky*, Harvard University
  (890-14-141)

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