AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

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

Friday March 27, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Groups and Applications, I
Room 129, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ya S. Soibelman, Kansas State University soibel@math.ksu.edu
Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Kansas State University lub@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Decomposition numbers for Hecke algebras at roots of unity.
  Fred Goodman*, University of Iowa
  (932-16-240)
- 8:45 a.m.
  Lattice Gauge Field Theory Based on a Quantum Group and Deformation Quantization.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (932-22-189)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cremmer-Gervais quantum groups.
  Timothy J Hodges*, University of Cincinnati
  (932-16-167)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Invariants of links and three manifolds related with quantum and classical Lie superalgebra $osp(1|2)$.
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University
  (932-57-185)

Friday March 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Groups and Applications, II
Room 129, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ya S. Soibelman, Kansas State University soibel@math.ksu.edu
Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Kansas State University lub@math.ksu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quantization of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equations.
  Aleksander Varchenko*, University of North Carolina
  (932-81-234)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Segal's conjecture and conformal field theory.
  Shrawan Kumar*, University of North Carolina
  (932-17-238)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Boson-Fermion identities for affine Lie algebra characters.
  Masato Okado*, University of Osaka
  (932-17-241)

Friday March 27, 1998, 7:00 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Groups and Applications, III
Room 129, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ya S. Soibelman, Kansas State University soibel@math.ksu.edu
Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Kansas State University lub@math.ksu.edu
- 7:00 p.m.
  The Analogue of Shafarevich's Conjecture for Odd Dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds.
  Andrey Todorov*, University of California
  (932-57-239)
- 7:45 p.m.
  Braided Groups and Quantum Geometry.
  Shahn Majid*, Research Fellow
  (932-20-160)
- 8:30 p.m.
  Algebra and Geometry over Free Associative Algebras.
  Vladimir Retakh*, University of Arkansas
  (932-16-60)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Groups and Applications, IV
Room 129, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ya S. Soibelman, Kansas State University soibel@math.ksu.edu
Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Kansas State University lub@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Duality in infinite dimensional Fock representations.
  Weiqiang Wang*, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn
  (932-81-233)
- 8:45 a.m.
  $W_{1+\infty}$ as conformal algebra.
  Andrey Radul*, Howard University
  (932-81-236)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decomposing Representations of Quantum Affine Algebras .
  Michael Kleber*, U.C. Berkeley
  (932-17-15)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Quantized conformal blocks.
  Evgeny Mukhin*, UNC
  (932-81-231)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Groups and Applications, V
Room 129, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ya S. Soibelman, Kansas State University soibel@math.ksu.edu
Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Kansas State University lub@math.ksu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some problems in deformation quantization.
  Boris Tsygan*, Penn State University
  (932-16-237)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Noncommutative geometry based on commutator expansions.
  Michail Kapranov*, Northwestern University
  (932-14-235)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quantum Field Theory on Algebraic Curves.
  Leon A Takhtajan*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (932-81-229)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 7:00 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Groups and Applications, VI
Room 129, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ya S. Soibelman, Kansas State University soibel@math.ksu.edu
Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Kansas State University lub@math.ksu.edu
- 7:00 p.m.
  The Borel-Weil-Bott Theorem at a root of unity.
  Alexander A. Voronov*, M.I.T.
  (932-17-33)
- 7:45 p.m.
  Vertex representations of Kac-Moody algebras.
  Naihuan Jing*, North Carolina State University
  (932-17-177)
- 8:30 p.m.
  Quantum groupoids and deformation quantization.
  Ping Xu*, Penn State University
  (932-81-06)

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