AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Saturday April 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Dualities in Mathematics and Physics, I
Room 216, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley reshetik@math.berkeley.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Calogero-Moser Systems in Seiberg-Witten Theory.
  Eric D'Hoker*, UCLA
  D. H. Phong, Columbia University
  (934-51-53)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Field Theory and Intersecting Branes.
  Jan de Boer*, UC Berkeley
  (934-81-64)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Heat kernel and localization.
  Kefeng Liu*, Stanford University
  (934-53-92)

Saturday April 25, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Dualities in Mathematics and Physics, II
Room 216, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley reshetik@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Noncommutative geometry and M(atrix) theory.
  Albert Schwarz*, Math Dept, University of California at Davis
  (934-81-81)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Duality in the fractional quantum Hall effect.
  Hubert M Saleur*, University of Southern California
  (934-82-56)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Complex counterpart of abelian Chern-Simons theory.
  Igor B Frenkel, Yale University
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
  Andrey N Todorov*, UCSC
  (934-51-63)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Bispectral Duality: Higher rank and higher dimensional examples.
  Alex Kasman*, Concordia University and CRM
  (934-35-50)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Dualities in Mathematics and Physics, III
Room 216, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley reshetik@math.berkeley.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonlinear Serre duality .
  Alexander B Givental*, UC Berkeley
  (934-14-58)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Modular forms and the enumerative geometry of K3 and Abelian surfaces.
  Jim A Bryan*, Univ. of Cal., Berkeley
  Conan Leung, Univ. of Minnesota
  (934-14-33)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Homological mirror conjecture for elliptic curves.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Harvard University
  Eric Zaslow, Harvard University
  (934-14-10)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Dualities in Mathematics and Physics, IV
Room 216, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley reshetik@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Geometric Approach to Equations of KdV Type.
  David Ben-Zvi*, Harvard University
  Edward Frenkel, U.C. Berkeley
  (934-22-57)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Meromorphic tensor categories.
  Yan Soibelman*, Kansas State University
  (934-22-34)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Non-commutative analogue of Nahm transform.
  Alexander Astashkevich*, Math Dept, University of California at Davis
  Nikita Nekrasov, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University
  Albert Schwarz, Math Dept, University of California at Davis
  (934-81-148)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Semi-infinite cohomology and superconformal algebras.
  Elena Poletaeva*, Univetsity of Lund
  (934-17-66)

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