AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 3, 2010 00:25:08

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

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

Saturday March 27, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical String Theory, I
Room 239, White Hall
Organizers:
Al Shapere, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky shapere@pa.uky.edu
Eric Sharpe, Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Mark A. Stern, Duke University
- 8:00 a.m.
  New Horizons in Holography.
  Shamit Kachru*, KITP, Santa Barbara
  (1057-83-82)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Onset of Instabilities in Hydrodynamic Flows via the AdS/CFT Correspondence.
  Philip C. Argyres*, University of Cincinnati, Physics Department
  (1057-35-317)
- 10:00 a.m.
  ADHM Sheaves in Mathematics and Physics.
  Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu*, NHETC Rutgers University
  (1057-14-126)

Saturday March 27, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical String Theory, II
Room 239, White Hall
Organizers:
Al Shapere, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky shapere@pa.uky.edu
Eric Sharpe, Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Mark A. Stern, Duke University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Wall-crossing and Hitchin Systems. Part 1: Motivic Wallcrossing and Line Operators in $N=2$ Gauge Theory.
  Davide Gaiotto*, Institute for Advanced Studies
  Gregory W Moore, Rutgers University
  Andrew Neitzke, University of Texas at Austin
  (1057-81-235)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Wall-crossing and Hitchin systems. Part 2: Dimensional reduction, hyperkahler metrics and Hitchin's equations.
  Davide Gaiotto, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  Gregory W Moore, Rutgers University
  Andrew Neitzke*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1057-81-384)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quantum Wall Crossing in ${\cal N}=2$ Gauge Theories.
  Tudor Dimofte*, Caltech
  Sergei Gukov, Caltech
  Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
  (1057-14-232)

Sunday March 28, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical String Theory, III
Room 239, White Hall
Organizers:
Al Shapere, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky shapere@pa.uky.edu
Eric Sharpe, Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Mark A. Stern, Duke University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Decompactifications and Massless D-Branes in Hybrid Models.
  Paul S Aspinwall*, Duke University
  (1057-81-165)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gromov-Witten theory of etale gerbes.
  Y. Jiang*, University of Utah
  (1057-14-224)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Categorical T-duality.
  Patrick Clarke*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1057-51-278)

Sunday March 28, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical String Theory, IV
Room 239, White Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Edge of Supersymmetry: Slope-Stability Walls in Heterotic String Theory.
  Burt A Ovrut*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1057-14-256)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Consequences of Heterotic Supersymmetry.
  Lara B Anderson*, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
  (1057-14-283)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Orbifolds and Intrinsic Torsion.
  Allan Adams*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept of Physics
  (1057-81-294)

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