AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:50

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

Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, I
Room 258, Willard Building
Organizers:
Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Strict Deformation Quantization of Symmetric Spaces.
  Pierre Bieliavsky*, Dartmouth College
  (937-81-72)
- 9:40 a.m.
  On deformation quantization with seperation of variables of Poisson manifolds.
  Alexander Astashkevich*, UC Davis
  (937-81-92)
- 10:20 a.m.
  On deformation theory of associative algebras.
  Yan Soibelman*, Kansas State U
  (937-16-113)

Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, II
Room 258, Willard Building
Organizers:
Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Multiplets of representations and a new kind of Dirac operartor involving a cubic term .
  Bertram Kostant*, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
  (937-22-50)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The dispersionless limit of the Toda system and Toeplitz quantization.
  A. Bloch, University of Michigan
  T. Paul, CEREMADE
  A. Uribe*, University of Michigan
  (937-70-43)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Moment maps and Riemannian symmetric pairs.
  Luis O'Shea, Cornell University
  Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
  (937-58-85)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras.
  Alexander A. Voronov*, Michigan State University
  (937-81-40)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Formal solution of the master equation via HPT.
  Johannes Huebschman, Universite de Lille I
  Jim Stasheff*, UNC-Chapel Hill
  (937-58-91)
- 5:50 p.m.
  Compatible deformations.
  Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvania
  Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University of Chicago
  (937-18-122)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, III
Room 258, Willard Building
Organizers:
Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Morita equivalence of Poisson manifolds and Poisson (co)homology.
  Viktor L Ginzburg*, University of California Santa Cruz
  (937-58-116)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cohomology rings of nonabelian symplectic quotients.
  S Tolman, UIUC
  J Weitsman*, UCSC
  (937-58-115)
- 9:40 a.m.
  The Verlinde formula for moduli spaces of parabolic bundles.
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Univ. of Toronto
  (937-58-106)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The Verlinde formulas as fixed point formulas .
  Anton Alekseev, Uppsala University
  Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto
  Chris T Woodward*, Rutgers University
  (937-53-60)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, IV
Room 258, Willard Building
Organizers:
Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Poisson harmonic forms and a theorem of Kostant.
  Sam Evens*, U. of Arizona
  Jiang-Hua Lu, U. of Arizona
  (937-22-35)
- 3:10 p.m.
  A Littelmann-type formula for Duistermaat-Heckman measures.
  Allen Knutson*, Brandeis
  (937-53-59)
- 3:50 p.m.
  On the Moduli Space of Yang-Baxter Operators .
  Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University Chicago
  (937-17-127)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quantum States Localized on Lagrangian Submanifolds.
  Fran\c cois Ziegler*, University of Georgia
  (937-22-140)

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