AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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2004 Fall Western Section Meeting
Albuquerque, NM, October 16-17, 2004
Meeting #1000

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

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Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications

• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, I
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Categorification of the Kauffman bracket skein module of $F\times I$.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    Marta M Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Adam S Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1000-57-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University / National Science Foundation
    (1000-57-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Frobenius operad.
    Zbigniew Oziewicz*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlan
    (1000-18-169)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Causal sites as a foundation for quantum gravity.
    Louis Crane*, Mathematics Department, Kansas State University
    Dan Christensen, Mathematics Department, University of western Ontario
    (1000-83-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Is there a relationship between geometry of complex networks and the 1/f noise?
    Robert M. Owczarek*, Jemez Springs, NM
    (1000-52-137)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, II
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Virtual Braids and the $L$-move.
    Sofia Lambropoulou*, Department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens
    Louis H. Kauffman, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-57-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Virtual Links and the Generalized Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Invariant.
    H A Dye*, United States Military Academy
    Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-57-42)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Correlation Schemes.
    Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa
    (1000-05-214)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Graphs Applied in Theory of White-Box Software Testing.
    Nikita A Sakhanenko*, Los Alamos National Laboratory/University of New Mexico
    Hanna E Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Robert M Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-68-65)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Vector space of paths and completeness of White-Box software testing.
    Hanna E. Makaruk*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM
    Robert M. Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    Nikita A. Sakhanenko, University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-68-146)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, III
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    NonEquilibrium Systems and Irreversible Processes - from the perspective of Continuous Topological Evolution.
    R. M. Kiehn*, Physics Department, University of Houston
    (1000-80-31)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rota-Baxter algebras in renormalization of QFT.
    K Ebrahimi-Fard, University of Bonn, Germany
    L Guo*, Rutgers University at Newark
    D Kreimer, IHES
    (1000-81-200)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    MathAction - Collaborative Mathematics on the Web using Axiom and REDUCE.
    William S Page*, Kingston, Ontario
    (1000-68-157)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A functor from cyclic operads to chain complexes.
    James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
    (1000-18-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-Commutative Worlds and the Feynman-Dyson Derivation of Electromagnetism.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-78-193)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, IV
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Applications of Hopf algebra cohomology in quantum field theory and representation theory.
    Bertfried Fauser*, Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik in den Naturwissensachaften
    (1000-16-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classical mechanics on Lie algebras, and more.
    Jerzy Kocik*, Mathematics Department, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
    (1000-53-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Magnus mapping for free loops.
    Liudmila Sabinina*, UAEM, Cuernavaca,Morelos, Mexico
    Ricardo Diaz Gutierrez, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
    (1000-20-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the full "momentum space" in Double Special Relativity.
    Piotr Stachura*, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    (1000-20-166)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and its Two Complementary Theories.
    Pavol Valent*, University KF Nitra, Slovak Republik, Europe
    (1000-83-67)

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