AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

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

Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, I
Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Pfaffian-Grassmannian derived equivalence.
  Andrei H Caldararu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1019-14-95)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sheaves and Metrics on Canonical Singularities.
  David R Morrison*, Duke University
  (1019-14-150)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Birational Geometry and Homological Mirror Symmetry.
  Ludmil Katzarkov*, University of California, Irvine
  (1019-14-78)

Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, II
Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Integrable Hierarchies and Mirror Symmetry for Quasi-homogeneous Singularities.
  Huijun Fan, Peking University
  Tyler Jarvis*, Univ. Connecticut
  Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
  (1019-14-134)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Computation of (0,2) correlation functions.
  Josh Guffin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Sheldon Katz*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1019-81-219)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geometric Langlands duality, gauge theory, and mirror symmetry.
  Anton Kapustin*, California Institute of Technology
  (1019-81-59)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, III
Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Topology of Calabi-Yau Threefolds in Toric Varieties.
  Charles F Doran*, University of Washington
  John W Morgan, Columbia University
  (1019-14-83)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The "Jacobi genus": relation between the Witten genus and the two-variable elliptic genus.
  Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Nora Ganter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Christopher P French, Grinnell College
  (1019-55-162)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Physics of Knot Homologies.
  Sergei G Gukov*, Caltech
  (1019-51-67)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, IV
Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Gromov-Witten theory of twisted projective lines and intergable hierarchies.
  Hsian-Hua Tseng*, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
  (1019-14-27)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli space of 4-manifolds and the universal Seiberg-Witten invariant.
  N. Shirokova*, Stanford University
  (1019-57-140)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Gerstenhaber Structures and Vertex Algebras.
  Vassily Gorbounov*, University of Kentucky
  (1019-81-142)

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