AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 19, 2005 00:56:25

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

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics, I
Room 102, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon apolish@math.uoregon.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@math.uoregon.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Donaldson-Thomas Invariants via Microlocal Geometry.
  Kai Behrend*, University of British Columbia
  (1012-14-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of derived objects on a K3 surfaces.
  Aaron Bertram*, University of Utah
  (1012-14-122)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics, II
Room 102, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon apolish@math.uoregon.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cumrun Vafa. Joint talk with session on K-theory in M-theory, Room 208, Deady Hall, 3:00p.m.
- 4:00 p.m.
  G-stable maps and stringy cohomology.
  Tyler Jarvis*, Brigham Young Univ.
  Ralph Kaufmann, Univ. Connecticut
  Takashi Kimura, Boston Univ.
  (1012-14-177)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Stringy Orbifold Structures.
  Ralph M. Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut. Department of Mathematics.
  (1012-14-162)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Stringy algebraic structures on orbifolds.
  Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
  (1012-14-181)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties.
  Eric Zaslow*, Northwestern University
  (1012-14-165)

Sunday November 13, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics, III
Room 102, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon apolish@math.uoregon.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@math.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Chiral de Rham complex and the half-twisted sigma-model.
  Anton Kapustin*, California Institute of Technology
  (1012-81-135)
- 8:30 a.m.
  ADE singularities and integrable hierarchies.
  Alexander Givental*, University of California Berkeley
  (1012-14-190)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Equivariant Gromov--Witten Theory of $\mathbb{C}P^1$ and Integrable Hierarchies.
  Todor E Milanov*, Stanford University
  (1012-32-33)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Orbifold Quantum Riemann-Roch.
  Hsian-Hua Tseng*, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
  (1012-14-144)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday November 13, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics, IV
Room 102, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon apolish@math.uoregon.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Admissible Covers: an alternative to (some aspects of) Gromov-Witten Theory?
  Renzo Cavalieri*, University of Michigan
  (1012-14-146)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Group quantum cohomology and applications to flag varieties with Dynkin diagram automorphisms.
  Maciej Mizerski*, The University of British Columbia
  (1012-14-191)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Chow ring of moduli spaces of stable maps from rational curves into projective space.
  Anca M Mustata*, University of Illinois
  Dragos Andrei S Mustata, University of Illinois
  (1012-14-23)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Chow ring of moduli spaces of stable maps and applications to Gromov-Witten invariants.
  Anca M Mustata, University of Illinois
  Dragos Andrei S Mustata*, University of Illinois
  (1012-14-24)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A relation in the tautological ring of $\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,1}$.
  D. Arcara*, University of Utah
  F. Sato, KIAS
  (1012-14-46)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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