AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, November 2, 2006 00:39:18

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, I
Room 122, Business School
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A compact set of compactified moduli spaces.
  Jim Stasheff*, U Penn and Emeritus UNC-CH
  (1021-55-15)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Moduli Space Actions on the Hochschild co-chains of a Frobenius algebra.
  Ralph M Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut
  (1021-55-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a topological conformal field theory.
  Kevin Costello*, Northwestern University
  (1021-18-21)

Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, II
Room 122, Business School
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The moduli space of n points on the line is cut out by quadrics when n is not six.
  Benjamin J Howard*, University of Maryland College Park
  John Millson, University of Maryland College Park
  Andrew Snowden, Princeton University
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
  (1021-14-33)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Solving the $A_{\infty}$-Deligne Conjecture with Polytopes.
  Rachel Schwell*, University of Connecticut
  (1021-57-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Realization of graph-associahedra.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1021-57-22)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantum Master Equation of Open-Closed String Theory.
  Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota
  Eric Harrelson, University of Minnesota
  J Javier Zuniga*, University of Minnesota
  (1021-55-13)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, III
Room 122, Business School
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Category of $A_{\infty}$-Bialgebras and Applications.
  Samson Saneblidze, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute; Georgian Academy of Sciences
  Ronald N Umble*, Millesville University of Pennsylvania
  (1021-55-12)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Brace and $\infty$ - algebras.
  Tom Lada*, North Carolina State University
  (1021-08-24)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The orbifold structure of moduli spaces of algebras.
  Michael Robert Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  (1021-18-121)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of $L_{\infty}$ structures.
  Marilyn Daily*, Max Planck Institute
  Alice Fialowski, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University
  Michael Penkava, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
  (1021-55-30)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, IV
Room 122, Business School
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hopf algebras of graphs, multiple zeta values and motives.
  Abhijnan Rej*, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn
  (1021-14-72)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The orbifold cohomology of a global quotient of a manifold by an abelian Lie group.
  Rebecca Goldin*, George Mason University
  (1021-14-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Poisson and other algebras on bordism groups of garlands.
  Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  (1021-57-35)

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