AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2009 00:27:58

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

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday April 4, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics, I
Room 451, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 8:30 a.m.
  Noncommutative Geometry and A-infinity structures.
  Alastair Ethan Hamilton*, University of Connecticut
  (1048-55-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fivebrane structures in string theory and M-theory.
  Hisham Sati*, Yale University
  (1048-55-39)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Field Equations from Homotopy Algebras of CFT.
  Anton Zeitlin*, Yale University
  (1048-81-44)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Non Self-Dual Pure Yang-Mills Theory On the Twistor Space.
  M. V. Movshev*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (1048-58-24)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Liouville phenomenon in the deformation of coisotropics.
  Noah Kieserman*, Colby College
  (1048-57-23)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics, II
Room 451, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 2:30 p.m.
  L-infinity algebras and Lie 2-algebras.
  Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
  (1048-18-87)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The homology of a DG bialgebra is an $A_\infty$-bialgebra.
  Samson Saneblidze, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
  Ronald Umble*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
  (1048-55-28)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Finite time computation of A-infinity algebra structures on Ext algebras.
  Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson*, Stanford University
  (1048-17-14)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Visibility and deformations of associahedra.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1048-05-35)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polytopes, positrons, and antipodes.
  S. Forcey*, Tennessee State Univeristy
  A. Lauve, Texas A&M
  F. Sottile, Texas A&M
  (1048-16-130)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Bar constructions and Quillen homology of modules over operads.
  John E Harper*, Postdoc/ EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  (1048-55-26)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics, III
Room 451, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homotopy triviality of the circle action and the Hochschild complex.
  Mahmoud Zeinalian*, Long Island University/Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik
  John Terilla, Graduate Center/CUNY
  Thomas Tradler, Graduate Center/CUNY
  (1048-55-69)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Constructing Moduli Spaces of Infinity Algebras.
  Michael R Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  (1048-17-177)
- 9:30 a.m.
  OCHA: examples and related structures.
  Eduardo Hoefel*, Universidade Federal do Paraná
  (1048-55-32)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $N$-differential graded algebras: examples and applications.
  Rafael Diaz*, Universidad del Rosario
  (1048-18-59)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Explicit higher Hochschild complexes.
  Thomas Tradler*, CUNY- College of Technology
  (1048-16-19)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics, IV
Room 451, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Finite Dimensional $A_{\infty}$ algebra Example.
  Michael P Allocca*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-55-27)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite Dimensional $L_\infty$ Algebras.
  Tom Lada*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-18-164)

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