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.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Physics, I
Room 303, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
James Stasheff, University of North Carolina jds@math.unc.edu
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota voronov@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Principles of Quantum Fields Theory.
  Jae-Suk Park*, Graduate Center of CUNY
  (997-81-162)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quantum Deformation Theory.
  John Terilla*, Stony Brook University
  (997-81-207)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Cyclic Deligne Conjecture.
  Thomas Tradler*, New York City College of Technology
  (997-16-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Theories, 2-categories, and conformal field theory.
  Po Hu*, Wayne State University
  (997-81-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Renormalization from the homotopy theoretical point of view.
  Dmitry E Tamarkin*, Northwestern University
  (997-81-154)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Physics, II
Room 303, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
James Stasheff, University of North Carolina jds@math.unc.edu
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota voronov@math.umn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A canonical semi-classical star-product.
  Lucian Miti Ionescu*, Illinois State University
  (997-81-227)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Examples of finite dimensional $L_{\infty}$ algebras in gauge theory.
  Tom Lada, North Carolina State University
  Marilyn Daily*, North Carolina State University
  (997-18-186)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Examples of Miniversal Deformations of Infinity Algebras.
  Michael R Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  (997-18-271)
- 4:00 p.m.
  String topology for transversal families.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (997-57-90)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some examples of homotopy Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras.
  Fusun Akman*, Coastal Carolina University
  (997-18-225)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Physics, III
Room 303, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
James Stasheff, University of North Carolina jds@math.unc.edu
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota voronov@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The A-infinity operad and the moduli space of curves.
  Kevin Costello*, Imperial College, London
  (997-51-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Operations in the algebraic topology of open-closed string theory.
  Eric Neal Harrelson*, University of Minnesota
  (997-55-221)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homotopy algebraic structures in classical open-closed strings.
  Hiroshige Kajiura*, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
  J Stasheff, University of Pennsylvania
  (997-18-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Arcs, strings and homotopy algebras.
  Ralph M Kaufmann*, Oklahoma State University
  (997-55-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Gauge groups and string topology.
  Paolo Salvatore*, University of Rome 2
  (997-55-229)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Physics, IV
Room 303, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
James Stasheff, University of North Carolina jds@math.unc.edu
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota voronov@math.umn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A chain-level version of string topology.
  James E. McClure*, Purdue University
  Jeffrey H. Smith, Purdue University
  (997-55-131)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Morse theoretic approach to string topology.
  Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
  (997-57-64)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rational curves, sigma models and string topology.
  Sadok Kallel*, University of Lille
  (997-55-222)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algebraic structures on generalized strings and applications.
  Vladimir V. Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  Yuli B Rudyak, University of Florida
  (997-57-49)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Graphs in String Topology.
  Veronique Godin*, Stanford University
  (997-55-183)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic structures and string topology.
  Dennis Sullivan*, SUNY at StonyBrook & Graduate Center of CUNY
  (997-22-239)

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