AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2009 00:42:31

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

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, I
Room 173, Surge Building
Organizers:
John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Categorifying Quantum Groups.
  Aaron D Lauda*, Columbia University
  (1054-16-62)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Categorification via Quiver Varieties.
  Anthony Licata*, Stanford, CA
  Sabin Cautis, Columbia
  Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto
  (1054-14-139)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Categorification of Hall Algebras.
  Christopher Walker*, University of California, Riverside
  (1054-18-276)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A categorification of the Hecke algebra.
  Alexander E Hoffnung*, University of California, Riverisde
  (1054-18-144)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homotopy colimits and the space of square-zero upper-triangular matrices.
  Jonathan W Lee*, Stanford University
  (1054-55-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Universal Bott Samelson resolutions.
  Nitu R Kitchloo*, University of California, San Diego
  (1054-22-51)

Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, II
Room 173, Surge Building
Organizers:
John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Real Johnson-Wilson Theories.
  Maia Averett*, Mills College
  (1054-55-101)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generating spaces for $S(n)$-acyclics.
  Aaron Leeman*, University of California, Riverside
  (1054-55-287)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Large Mapping spaces in quasi-categories.
  David I. Spivak*, University of Oregon
  Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon
  (1054-18-227)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An Application of Equivariant $\mathbb{A}^1$-Homotopy Theory to Problems in Commutative Algebra.
  T Benedict Williams*, Stanford University
  (1054-19-228)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the $K$-theory of toric varieties.
  Christian Haesemeyer*, UCLA
  Guillermo Cortinas, University of Buenos Aires
  Mark E Walker, University of Nebraska
  Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University
  (1054-19-255)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Relations amongst motivic Hopf elements.
  Daniel Dugger*, University of Oregon
  Daniel C. Isaksen, Wayne State University
  (1054-55-297)

Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, III
Room 173, Surge Building
Organizers:
John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Group Actions on Categorified Bundles.
  Weiwei Pan*, St. Marys College of California
  (1054-55-292)
- 8:30 a.m.
  String Topology and the Based Loop Space.
  Eric J Malm*, Stanford University
  (1054-55-221)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Orbifolds and Equivariant Homotopy Theory.
  Laura Scull*, Fort Lewis College
  Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
  (1054-55-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Atiyah--Segal completion theorem in twisted $K$-theory.
  Anssi S. Lahtinen*, Stanford
  (1054-55-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  String Connections and Supersymmetric Sigma Models.
  Konrad Waldorf*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1054-53-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Monoids of moduli spaces of manifolds.
  Soren Galatius*, Stanford University
  (1054-55-142)

Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, IV
Room 173, Surge Building
Organizers:
John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  2-Quandles: Categorified Quandles.
  Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
  (1054-18-300)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott--Taubes integrals and knot spaces.
  Robin Koytcheff*, Stanford University
  (1054-55-273)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Unstable Vassiliev Theory.
  Chad D Giusti*, University of Oregon
  (1054-55-202)
- 4:30 p.m.
  3-Categories for the Working Mathematician.
  Christopher L Douglas*, Berkeley
  Andre Henriques, Utrecht
  (1054-18-135)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Blob homology 1.
  Scott Morrison*, Miller Institute for Basic Research
  Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q
  (1054-18-289)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Blob Homology 2.
  Kevin Walker*, Microsoft Station Q
  (1054-55-272)

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