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2010 Spring Central Section Meeting
St. Paul, MN, April 10-11, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1058

Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories

• Saturday April 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, I
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fusion categories in terms of graphs and relations.
    Hendryk Pfeiffer*, The University of British Columbia,
    (1058-20-113)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    How to recognize $U_q(\mathfrak{g}_2)$ or $S_t$.
    Noah J Snyder*, Columbia University
    (1058-17-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tensor functors on a certain category constructed from spherical categories.
    Marta Asaeda*, Univ of California, Riverside
    (1058-57-273)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Turaev-Viro Invariants as an Extended TQFT.
    Alexander Kirillov, Jr, Stony Brook University
    Benjamin Balsam*, Stony Brook University
    (1058-81-254)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Second Quantization of Categorical Quantum Mechanics.
    Spencer D Stirling*, University of Utah
    Yong-Shi Wu, University of Utah
    (1058-81-236)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some properties of quantum representations of mapping class groups.
    Jens Fjelstad*, Karlstad University/Department of Physics
    (1058-18-222)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, II
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topological Quantum Information, Khovanov Homology and the Jones Polynomial.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1058-57-212)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Polynomial 6j-Symbols and States Sums on Triangulated 3-Manifolds.
    Nathan Geer*, Utah State University
    Bertrand Patureau, Université de Bretagne-Sud
    (1058-57-155)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Integrality of the Quantum SU(2) Invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Qi Chen*, Department of Mathematics, Winston-Salem State University
    (1058-57-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Colored $\mathfrak{sl}(N)$-homology for links and its deformations.
    Hao Wu*, George Washington University
    (1058-57-154)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Categorical Quandles and Knots.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Alissa Crans, Loyola University Marymount
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1058-55-128)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The second quandle homology of odd Takasaki quandles and exterior algebra.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, U.L. at Lafayette
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and U.T. at Dallas
    (1058-57-139)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, III
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    How to obtain invariants of linked surfaces in the 4-space from a link homology theory.
    Oleg Viro*, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University, NY
    (1058-57-186)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commutative Frobenius Algebras and 3-dimensional Compression Bordisms.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (1058-57-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Turaev Cobracket and the Minimal Self-Intersection Number.
    Patricia Cahn*, Dartmouth College
    (1058-57-74)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maslov index, Lagrangians, Mapping Class Groups and TQFT.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State Univiersity
    Gregor Masbaum, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu (UMR 7586 du CNRS)
    (1058-57-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Virtual linking numbers and the Conway polynomial.
    Sergei Chmutov*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
    (1058-57-249)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, IV
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum form of the Reidemeister torsion of a knot complement.
    Charles D Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1058-57-152)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reidemeister Torsion and the A-polynomial.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    (1058-57-06)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Kauffman bracket skein algebra and the quantum Teichmuller space.
    Francis Bonahon, Univeristy of Southern California
    Helen Wong*, Carleton College
    (1058-57-190)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum Teichmüller space and Kashaev algebra.
    Ren Guo*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Xiaobo Liu, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1058-57-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion

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