AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:20

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday March 4, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, I
Room 211, Undergraduate Building
- 8:30 a.m.
  Modular invariance and the vanishing theorems in topology.
  Kefeng Liu*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (898-55-156)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symplectic cuttings and a glueing formula of geometric quantization.
  Siye Wu*, Columbia University
  (898-58-128)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Two-dimensional sigma models in four-dimensional Yang-Mills.
  Vladimir Sadov*, Harvard University
  (898-81-103)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Remarks on symplectic invariants.
  Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
  (898-53-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Chern-Simons perturbation theory with a moduli space.
  Scott Axelrod*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (898-58-101)

Saturday March 4, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, II
Room 211, Undergraduate Building
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the Hitchin system.
  Bert van Geemen, University of Turin, Italy
  Emma Previato*, Boston University
  (898-14-61)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Analytically completely integrable systems, normal functions, and non-abelian theta functions.
  Ron Donagi*, University of Pennsylvania
  (898-58-139)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quantum cohomology and representation theory.
  Andrey O. Radul*, Howard University
  (898-15-42)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Monodromy of generalized theta functions.
  Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
  Tony G. Pantev*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (898-14-144)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Penrose transforms and the geometry of flag manifolds.
  J. A. Wolf*, University of California, Berkeley
  (898-22-02)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The algebraic structure of quantum cohomology.
  Ezra Getzler*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (898-58-159)

Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, III
Room 211, Undergraduate Building
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectic geometry of the classical and quantum representation ring.
  Lisa Jeffrey, Princeton University
  Jonathan Weitsman*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (898-16-141)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Localization and Riemann-Roch numbers for symplectic quotients.
  Lisa Jeffrey*, Princeton University
  (898-58-140)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Vassiliev and quantum invariants of braids.
  Dror Bar-Natan*, Harvard University
  (898-58-155)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite type 3-manifold invariants.
  Stavros Garoufalidis*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (898-51-59)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Non-commutative residue and spectral geometry.
  Steven Zelditch*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  (898-47-113)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Symplectic structures in gauge theory.
  Naichung Conan Leung*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (898-55-157)

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