AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

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

Friday May 2, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on VOA's Monstrous Moonshine and Related Topics, I
Room 135, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan rlg@math.lsa.umich.edu
Chongying Dong, University of California Santa Cruz dong@cats.ucsc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantum analogs of generalized Verma modules
  Viatcheslav M. Futorny, Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine
  Duncan J Melville*, St. Lawrence University
  (922-17-231)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of genus 2 curves and Kummer surfaces
  Charles B. Thomas*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  (922-20-239)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Replicable functions and the Monster
  Simon P Norton*, Cambridge, England
  (922-30-112)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Higher Genus Modular Equations
  Chris Cummins*,
  (922-11-161)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A vector-valued function generalizing the elliptic modular function $j(z)$
  Mihai Cipu, Centre Interuniversitaire en Calcul Math\'ematique Alg\'ebrique
  John McKay*, Centre Interuniversitaire en Calcul Math\'ematique Alg\'ebrique
  (922-11-255)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Mirror Pairs of Finite Groups.
  Geoffrey Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (922-20-271)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on VOA's Monstrous Moonshine and Related Topics, II
Room 135, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan rlg@math.lsa.umich.edu
Chongying Dong, University of California Santa Cruz dong@cats.ucsc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  An equivalence of categories of modules for generalized Kac-Moody algebras
  Elizabeth G. Jurisich*, The University of Chicago
  (922-17-259)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multibraces on topological vertex operator algebras
  F\"{u}sun Akman*, Utah State University
  (922-17-126)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Note on free bosonic vertex algebra and its conformal vectors
  Kiyokazu Nagatomo*, Osaka University, Japan
  Atsushi Matsuo, Osaka University, Japan
  (922-17-296)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Vertex Lie algebras, poisson algebras and vertex operator algebras
  Chongying Dong, University of California-Santa Cruz
  Haisheng Li*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Geoffrey Mason, University of California-Santa Cruz
  (922-17-249)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Vertex Operator Algebras in Topology
  Hirotaka Tamanoi*, University of California at Santa Cruz
  (922-55-270)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on VOA's Monstrous Moonshine and Related Topics, III
Room 135, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan rlg@math.lsa.umich.edu
Chongying Dong, University of California Santa Cruz dong@cats.ucsc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Twisted modules for a Virasoro VOA: A preliminary report
  Julie S Glass*, California State University at Hayward
  (922-17-132)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On ${\cal W}_{1+ \infty}$ with a negative central charge
  Weiqiang Wang*, Yale University,Gibbs Instructor
  (922-17-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Axiomatic study of intertwining operator algebras
  Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University
  (922-17-92)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Famlies of representations of the Virasoro and $N = 1$ and $N = 2$Neveu-Schwarz algebras in terms of superderivations and implications
  Katrina Deane Barron*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (922-17-93)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $q$-Vertex operators of twisted quantum affine algebras
  Naihuan Jing*, North Carolina State University
  (922-17-71)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Bosonic realizations of $U_q(C_n^{(1)})$
  Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
  (922-17-77)

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