AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, I
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Gerbe and twisted orbifold quantum cohomology.
  Yongbin Ruan*, Wisconsin/HKUST
  (987-53-104)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Inertia Orbifolds, Configuration Spaces and the Ghost Loop Space.
  Ernesto Lupercio*, University of Wisconsin
  Bernardo Uribe, Max Planck Institute
  (987-55-171)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Gerbes over orbifolds and their TQFTs.
  Bernardo Uribe*, Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik
  (987-55-61)
- 10:00 a.m.
  From moduli space of curves to Gromov-Witten invariants.
  Xiaobo Liu*, University of Notre Dame
  (987-53-78)

Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, II
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory.
  Tom Graber*, UC Berkeley
  (987-14-163)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The stringy Chow rings of $M_2$ and $\overline M_2$.
  Dan Abramovich*, Boston University / Brown University
  James Spencer, Boston University
  (987-14-151)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Global Mackay-Ruan Correspondence via Motivic Integration.
  Mainak Poddar*, Michigan State University
  (987-14-189)
- 5:00 p.m.
  New cohomological field theories arising from quasi-homogeneous polynomials.
  Huijun Fan, Max-Planck Institut fuer Math.
  Tyler J Jarvis*, Brigham Young University
  Yong-Bin Ruan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  (987-14-160)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Pointed admissible G-covers, equivariant topological field theories and analogies with the moduli space of higher spin curves.
  Takashi Kimura*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (987-14-192)

Sunday May 4, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, III
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  nKdV hierarchies and A_{n-1}-singularities.
  Alexander B Givental*, UC Berkeley
  (987-14-103)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Semisimple Frobenius manifolds and higher spin curves.
  Y.-P. Lee*, Univ. of Utah / Princeton U.
  (987-14-149)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some remarks on Witten's top Chern class.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
  (987-14-113)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Witten's top Chern class in K-theory.
  Alessandro Chiodo*, Cambridge University, UK
  (987-14-127)

Sunday May 4, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, IV
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A homotopy-theoretical Heisenberg group.
  Jack Morava*, Johns Hopkins University
  (987-55-183)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Gromov-Witten theory for global quotients.
  Ralph M Kaufmann*, Oklahoma State University and Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics
  (987-14-176)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Generalization of Spin Orbifold Quantum Cohomology Arising From Quasi-Homogeneous Polynomials.
  Huijun Fan*, MPI in Leipzig, Germany
  Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young university
  Yongbin Ruan, Wisconsin univ.& Hongkong Univ. Sci.& Tech.
  (987-53-122)

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