AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday March 27, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theories, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 347, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@uiuc.edu
David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin benzvi@math.utexas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Representation Theory and Equivariant Topological Field Theories.
  Dmytro Shklyarov*, Kansas State University
  (1047-81-102)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli problems and localization functors in orbifold CFT.
  Matthew M Szczesny*, Boston University
  (1047-14-142)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theories, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 347, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@uiuc.edu
David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin benzvi@math.utexas.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Character sheaves.
  David Ben-Zvi, Texas - Austin
  David Nadler*, Northwestern
  (1047-14-151)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The projective McKay correspondence.
  Christopher Brav*, University of Toronto
  (1047-14-300)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stability conditions, Springer fibers and braids with multiplied threads.
  Rina Anno*, University of Chicago
  (1047-14-421)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theories, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 347, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@uiuc.edu
David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin benzvi@math.utexas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  BPS invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  Sheldon H Katz*, University of Illinois
  (1047-14-483)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On GW/DT correspondence with descendants.
  Alexei Oblomkov*, Princeton
  Andrei Okounkov, Princeton
  (1047-14-323)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theories, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 347, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@uiuc.edu
David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin benzvi@math.utexas.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Localization for singular weights and finite W-algebras.
  Kobi Kremnizer*, University of Chicago
  (1047-22-303)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The 2-Lien of a 2-Gerbe.
  Prabhu Venkataraman*, Eureka College
  (1047-14-254)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Twisted Umkehr maps.
  Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Andrew Blumberg, Stanford University
  David Gepner, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Hisham Sati, Yale University
  (1047-55-175)

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