AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:59

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

Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, I
Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Constructions of $E_n$ Operads.
  Zbigniew Fiedorowicz*, Ohio State University
  (943-55-53)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Cohomology of graded generalizations of Poisson algebras.
  Gregg J. Zuckerman*, Yale University
  (943-17-89)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Fukaya's $A_{\infty}$ category and a CHAC operad.
  Jack Morava*, The Johns Hopkins University
  (943-18-147)

Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, II
Room 308, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some problems in deformation theory and quantum groups.
  Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvnia
  (943-16-137)
- 3:10 p.m.
  On Some Duality Theorems.
  Sorin Dascalescu, University of Bucharest
  Florin F. Nichita*, SUNY at Buffalo, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
  Samuel D. Schack, SUNY at Buffalo
  (943-16-27)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Integrable Hierarchies, Stable Maps, and Spin Curves.
  Tyler J Jarvis, Brigham Young University
  Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
  (943-14-159)

Sunday April 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, III
Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Homology of $A_{\infty}$ and $L_{\infty}-$algebras.
  Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario
  (943-18-142)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Formality conjectures for chains and characteristic classes.
  Boris L Tsygan*, Penn State University
  (943-18-170)
- 10:20 a.m.
  A master identity for homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras.
  Fusun Akman*, Coastal Carolina University
  (943-17-100)

Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, IV
Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Tale of Two Quantizations.
  Jim Stasheff*, UNC-CH
  (943-81-95)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Semi-infinite forms and topological vertex operator algebras.
  Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University
  Wenhua Zhao, University of Chicago
  (943-17-64)
- 3:50 p.m.
  The Operads of locally trivialized holomorphic $G$-bundles over Riemann sphere.
  Wenhua Zhao*, University of Chicago
  (943-81-107)

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