AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday October 21, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diagrammatic Morphisms in Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, I
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fernando@math.uic.edu
David Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Diagrammatic morphisms, or directly from geometry to algebra and back again: an overview.
  David N Yetter*, Kansas State University
  (958-01-222)
- 8:45 a.m.
  $n$-Categorical Physics.
  John C Baez*, University of California, Riverside
  (958-83-242)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Kauffman Bracket Skein as an Algebra of Observables.
  Douglas Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (958-57-94)
- 10:15 a.m.
  The Yang Mills Measure in the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles D Frohman*, University of Iowa
  Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (958-57-88)

Saturday October 21, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diagrammatic Morphisms in Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, II
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fernando@math.uic.edu
David Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symplectic structure on Colorings and Lagrangian tangles.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (958-57-60)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Knot invariants, embedded graphs and the category of representations of the Lorentz group.
  John W Barrett*, University of Nottingham
  (958-18-183)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Young tabloids and representations of braid groups.
  Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
  (958-57-253)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Cyclic operads and algebra of chord diagrams.
  Vladimir Hinich, University of Haifa
  Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
  (958-17-217)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diagrammatic Morphisms in Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, III
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fernando@math.uic.edu
David Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Linking of orientable and non-orientable surfaces in 4-dimensions.
  J. Scott Carter*, Univ. of South Alabama
  Seiichi Kamada, Osaka City Univ.
  Masahico Saito, Univ. of South Florida
  Shin Satoh, Osaka City Univ.
  (958-57-172)
- 8:45 a.m.
  Quandle cocycle invariants of knots and shadow colored arc diagrams.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Daniel Jelsovsky, Florida Southern College
  Seiichi Kamada, Osaka City University
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (958-57-170)
- 9:30 a.m.
  4D TQFT's and gerbes.
  Marco A Mackaay*, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
  (958-53-62)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Algebraic structures of Feynman diagrams: from Hopf and Lie algebras to operads.
  Dirk Kreimer*, Mainz University, Germany
  (958-81-205)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diagrammatic Morphisms in Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, IV
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fernando@math.uic.edu
David Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some tools for higher categories.
  Ross H Street*, Macquarie University
  (958-18-113)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Unifying Bialgebra Factorizations.
  Bernhard K Drabant*, SAP, Germany
  (958-18-142)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Relating braided Hopf algebras and the mapping class groups via tangle presentations.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (958-57-229)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Quantum Clifford Algebras and Multibraided Quantum Groups.
  Micho Durdevich*, Institute of Mathematics, UNAM
  (958-16-238)

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