AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

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

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

Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, I
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Supersymmetry, Lie n-algebras and division algebras.
  John Huerta*, University of California, Riverside
  John C. Baez, University of California, Riverside
  (1064-18-369)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics, Infinite-Dimensional Matthai-Quillen, and the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem.
  Stephen F Sawin*, Fairfield University
  Dana Fine, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  (1064-81-13)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Chern-Simons Theory and the Todd Genus.
  Ryan E. Grady*, University of Notre Dame
  (1064-58-371)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, II
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Kontsevich's Swiss Cheese Conjecture.
  Justin D. Thomas*, Notre Dame University
  (1064-55-184)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry I.
  Eric Zaslow*, Northwestern University
  (1064-55-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Monoidal categories and 3-dimensional TQFTs.
  Vladimir Turaev*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1064-57-247)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, III
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Fibered WZW models and Lipsky's cocycle construction.
  Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1064-55-362)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Higher Categories and TQFTs.
  Mark Feshbach, University of Minnesota
  Alexander A Voronov*, University of Minnesota
  (1064-57-326)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the extension of a TCFT to the boundary of the moduli space.
  Alastair Hamilton*, Texas Tech University
  (1064-55-185)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, IV
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Open-closed moduli spaces and related algebraic structures.
  Eric Harrelson, Austin, Texas
  Alexander Voronov, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  J. Javier Zúñiga*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
  (1064-55-175)
- 9:00 a.m.
  BV Structures and Modular Operads.
  Ben C Ward*, Purdue University
  (1064-55-228)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Higher String Topology - Old and New.
  Po Hu*, Wayne State University
  (1064-55-209)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Topological Hermitian cobordism and related topics.
  Hu Po, Wayne State University
  Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan
  (1064-55-211)