AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 7, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry, Topology, and Quantum Field Theory, I
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin
Ezra Getzler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rank two monopoles and invariants of smooth four-manifolds.
  Paul M. N. Feehan, Harvard University
  Thomas G. Leness*, Michigan State University
  (903-58-133)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Betti numbers of Kontsevich's spaces of stable mappings.
  Ezra Getzler*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-14-222)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Enumerating branched covers of surfaces using $2D$ Yang-Mills theory.
  W. Taylor*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-81-237)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum Chern-Simons theory and the semiclassical expansion of the Jones polynomial of links and of Witten's invariant of rational homology spheres.
  L. Rozansky*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (903-32-178)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conjectures in Chern-Simons perturbation theory.
  Scott E. Axelrod*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-81-223)

Saturday October 7, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry, Topology, and Quantum Field Theory, II
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin
Ezra Getzler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mirror symmetry and string theory.
  Shing-Tung Yau*, Harvard University
  (903-81-49)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Intersection numbers in the moduli space of flat connections on a Riemann surface.
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, McGill University
  (903-58-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Yang-Baxter Chern-Simons models and link invariants.
  Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Utah
  (903-57-236)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Problem Session

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