AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:21

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 24, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Three Manifolds, 6 j Symbols, and Coherent Tensor Operators, I
Room 8208, DePaul Center
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tensor operators.
  Jacob Towber*, DePaul University
  (900-22-73)
- 9:30 a.m.
  3j and 6j symbols and orthogonal polynomials.
  Richard A. Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (900-33-108)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Generators and relations for the affine rings of the connected reductive groups.
  Vladimir Popov*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (900-20-107)

Friday March 24, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Three Manifolds, 6 j Symbols, and Coherent Tensor Operators, II
Room 8208, DePaul Center
- 3:00 p.m.
  Classical and quantum spin network evaluations.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (900-57-48)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Recent developments in dimension 4 and higher.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Masahico Saito, Northwestern University
  (900-57-33)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Finite-dimensional Hopf algebras and $3$-manifold invariants.
  Greg Kuperberg*, University of Chicago
  (900-57-123)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Coordinates of the quantum hyperplane as q-tensor operators in U_q(su(n)*su(n)).
  Max A. Lohe*, University of Texas, Austin
  L. C. Biedenharn, University of Texas, Austin
  (900-57-66)

Saturday March 25, 1995, 8:40 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Three Manifolds, 6 j Symbols, and Coherent Tensor Operators, III
Room 8208, DePaul Center
- 8:40 a.m.
  Canonical bases for quantum groups of type A_r and piecewise-linear combinatorics.
  Arkady Dmitrievich Berenstein*, Northeastern University
  Andrei Zelevinsky, Northeastern University
  (900-17-76)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A dual structure for the quantal rotation group, SU (2).
  L. C. Biedenharn*, University of Texas, Austin
  Max A. Lohe, University of Texas, Austin
  (900-57-67)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Quantum 3-manifold invariants and branched covers.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Masahico Saito*, Northwestern University
  (900-57-43)

Saturday March 25, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Three Manifolds, 6 j Symbols, and Coherent Tensor Operators, IV
Room 8208, DePaul Center
- 3:00 p.m.
  Coherent tensor operators.
  Dan Flath*, University of South Alabama
  (900-22-72)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Total positivity tests and pl-combinatorics related to the canonical bases for quantum groups of type A.
  Arkady Dmitrievich Berenstein, Northeastern University
  Sergey Fomin, Northeastern University
  Andrei Zelevinsky*, Northeastern University
  (900-17-86)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Invariants of 1-1 tangles arising from finite-dimensional Hopf algebras.
  David E. Radford*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (900-16-232)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Quantum 3nj-symbols and their applications.
  Anatolii Nikolaevich Kirillov*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (900-33-251)

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