AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:32

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Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday November 1, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-9:50 p.m.
Special Session on Lie Groups and Physics, I
Room 210, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victor A. Ginzburg, University of Chicago ginzburg@math.uchicago.edu
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University soibelma@ihes.fr
- 4:00 p.m.
  Characteristic cycles on the loop Grassmannian.
  Sam Evens*, University of Illinois-Chicago
  Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (916-22-277)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Double loop groups, double affine Hecke algebras and elliptic curves.
  Victor Ginzburg*, University of Chicago
  (916-22-285)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Deformation of Virasoro and $\cal W$ algebras and their application to pyysics.
  Hidetoshi Awata*, University of Chicago
  (916-22-273)
- 6:20 p.m.
  Break
- 7:30 p.m.
  The quotient realizations for the groups of double loops.
  Boris Khesin*,
  (916-22-278)
- 8:20 p.m.
  Flat connections on Riemann surfaces
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, McGill University
  (916-58-178)
- 9:10 p.m.
  Riemann-Roch from Duistermaat-Heckman.
  Scott Axelrod*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (916-22-286)

Saturday November 2, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Lie Groups and Physics, II
Room 210, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victor A. Ginzburg, University of Chicago ginzburg@math.uchicago.edu
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University soibelma@ihes.fr
- 8:30 a.m.
  A braid group action on invariant forms.
  Ben Cox*, Lulea University, Lulea, Sweden S-971 87
  (916-22-276)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Infinite wedge representations and combinatorics.
  Eugene Stern*, University of California, Berkeley
  (916-22-272)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Canonical basis and cohomologies of local systems.
  Alexander Kirillov*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (916-22-274)

Saturday November 2, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-9:50 p.m.
Special Session on Lie Groups and Physics, III
Room 210, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victor A. Ginzburg, University of Chicago ginzburg@math.uchicago.edu
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University soibelma@ihes.fr
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometric singularities and enhanced Gauge symmetries.
  Michael Bershadsky*, Harvard Univesity
  (916-22-287)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Generating functional and effective action in CFT on higher genus Riemann surfaces.
  Leon Takhtajan*, SUNY, Stony Brook
  (916-22-281)
- 4:10 p.m.
  On the proof of the mirror conjecture for flag manifolds and complete intersections.
  A. Givental*, University of California, Berkeley
  (916-22-283)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantum Schubert polynomials and Gromov-Witten invariants.
  Alex Postnikov*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (916-22-275)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Break
- 7:30 p.m.
  Vertex operator algebras, quantum field theory and geometry.
  Andrei Radul*, Howard University
  (916-22-279)
- 8:20 p.m.
  Deformation quantization and $[Q,R] = 0$ theorem.
  Boris Tsygan*,
  (916-22-268)
- 9:10 p.m.
  Elliptic quantum groups and Bethe ansatz.
  Aleksander Varchenko*, University of North Carolina
  (916-22-288)

Sunday November 3, 1996, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Special Session on Lie Groups and Physics, IV
Room 210, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victor A. Ginzburg, University of Chicago ginzburg@math.uchicago.edu
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University soibelma@ihes.fr
- 10:00 a.m.
  Semi-induced representations and universal string theory
  Alexander A. Voronov*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (916-17-31)
- 10:50 a.m.
  Representations of groups in BRST cohomology
  Gregg J. Zuckerman*, Yale University
  Bong H. Lian, Brandeis University
  (916-22-180)
- 11:40 a.m.
  Tensor ideals for tilting modules
  Hans Wenzl*,
  (916-22-282)
- 12:20 p.m.
  Break
- 1:30 p.m.
  Quantum affine algebras and Dorey's rule.
  V. Chari*,
  (916-22-290)
- 2:20 p.m.
  Cohomology of Poissson structures.
  J-H. Lu*,
  (916-22-284)

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