AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

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

2009 Fall Western Section Meeting
Riverside, CA, November 7-8, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1054

• 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)