AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

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

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Strings and Branes, I
Room 317, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Thomas P. Branson, University of Iowa branson@eva.math.uiowa.edu
S. James Gates, University of Maryland gatess@umd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariants on symmetric superspaces.
  Yi Ming Zou*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (997-22-174)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Supersymmetry beyond Superspace.
  Gregory D. Landweber*, University of Oregon
  (997-17-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Coadjoint orbits, spherical vectors and the wavefunction of the universe.
  Andrew Waldron*, UC Davis
  (997-81-96)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Strings and Branes, II
Room 317, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Thomas P. Branson, University of Iowa branson@eva.math.uiowa.edu
S. James Gates, University of Maryland gatess@umd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Conformally compact Einstein manifolds and renormalized volume.
  Alice Chang, Princeton University
  Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
  Paul Yang, Princeton University
  (997-53-187)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Conformally invariant Maxwell type operators on forms and global conformal invariants.
  A Rod Gover*, University of Auckland
  (997-58-103)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Recent progress on the study of the BCOV torsion.
  Hao Fang*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (997-53-205)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Maxwell--Born--Infeld fields with point defects.
  Michael K.-H. Kiessling*, Rutgers University
  (997-83-243)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Morse Theory for the H-surface equation.
  Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
  Andrea Malchiodi, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
  (997-58-98)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Strings and Branes, III
Room 317, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Thomas P. Branson, University of Iowa branson@eva.math.uiowa.edu
S. James Gates, University of Maryland gatess@umd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A construction of critical {\sf GJMS} operators using Wodzicki's residue.
  William J. Ugalde*, Purdue University
  (997-53-172)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Invertible functions on noncommutative two-tori and holomorphic structures.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, University of Oregon
  (997-58-94)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Geometry of the lifts of orientifold six-planes from type IIA string theory to M-theory.
  Amy E Ksir*, United States Naval Academy
  Stephen G Naculich, Bowdoin College
  (997-81-228)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Calabi-Yau Orientifolds: Gepner Crosscaps, Charges, and Moduli.
  Brandon Bates, Columbia University
  Charles Doran*, Columbia University
  Lennaert Huiszoon, I.T.F., K.U.Leuven
  Koenraad Schalm, I.S.C.A.P., Columbia
  (997-14-168)

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