AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 17, 2008, 4:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theory, I
Room 1010, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
David Nadler, Northwestern University nadler@math.northwestern.edu
- 4:30 p.m.
  Symmetric Functions and Caps.
  Erik L Carlsson*, Northwestern University
  (1043-05-205)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theory, II
Room 1010, Fetzer Center
- 8:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial Heegaard-Floer invariants for four-dimensional cobordisms.
  Ciprian Manolescu*, UCLA
  Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University
  Jiajun Wang, Caltech
  (1043-57-124)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Renormalization and Effective Field Theory.
  Kevin Costello*, Northwestern University
  (1043-81-211)
- 10:30 a.m.
  String Topology and Floer Homology.
  Mohammed Abouzaid*, MIT
  (1043-81-212)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theory, III
Room 1010, Fetzer Center
- 3:00 p.m.
  Categories coming from symplectic singularities, or on the Ext-algebra of hot fudge.
  Ben Webster*, MIT
  (1043-81-213)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Localization for THH and TC of spectral categories.
  Andrew Blumberg*, University of Chicago
  (1043-81-214)

Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theory, IV
Room 1010, Fetzer Center
- 9:00 a.m.
  Localization for W-algebras.
  Kobe Kremnizer*, MIT
  (1043-81-215)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tangle category actions.
  Rina Anno*, The University of Chicago
  (1043-18-162)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org