AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, April 17, 2006 00:33:27

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Physics, I
Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On Quantum Master Equation of Open-Closed String Theory.
  Eric Harrelson, University of Minnesota
  Alexander A. Voronov*, University of Minnesota
  Javier Zuniga, University of Minnesota
  (1016-81-125)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conformal Structures and Metric Triangulations.
  Scott O Wilson*, University of Minnesota
  (1016-55-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ideas about elliptic cohomology and twisted K-theory from open string theory.
  Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1016-55-245)

Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topology and Physics, II
Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Superconnections and Superparallel Transport.
  Florin O. Dumitrescu*, University of Notre Dame
  (1016-55-213)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Modular operads revisited.
  Ezra Getzler*, Northwestern University
  (1016-18-168)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Physics, III
Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Canonical metric connections associated to string structures.
  D. Corbett Redden*, University of Notre Dame
  (1016-55-112)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Physical free loopspaces.
  Jack Morava*, Johns Hopkins University
  Nitu Kitchloo, University of California at San Diego
  (1016-57-315)

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