2011 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, September 17, 2011 00:24:58

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, I
Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  An algebraic approach to genus 0 chiral conformal field theory.
  Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan
  (1072-17-10)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Structure of rational vertex operator algebras - reviving the conformal bootstrap.
  Geoffrey Mason*, UC Santa Cruz
  (1072-17-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dilogarithms, OPE and twisted T-duality.
  Marco Aldi*, Brandeis University
  Reimundo Heluani, IMPA
  (1072-17-118)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A classical vertex algebra constructed with the use of some logarithmic formal calculus.
  Thomas Robinson*, Rutgers University
  (1072-17-127)

Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, II
Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Deformation theory of grading-restricted vertex algebras.
  Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University
  (1072-17-46)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On explicit realization of logarithmic modules for certain vertex algebras.
  Drazen Adamovic*, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  Antun Milas, University at Albany (SUNY)
  (1072-17-166)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symplectic Fermions and Logarithmic CFT.
  Ingo Runkel*, University of Hamburg
  (1072-81-178)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Conformal embeddings of affine vertex operator algebras.
  Drazen Adamovic, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  Ozren Perse*, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  (1072-17-141)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Demazure crystals for $U_q(G_2^{(1)})$.
  Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
  Rebecca L. Jayne, North Carolina State University
  (1072-17-71)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A free field type representation of elliptic $G_2$.
  Elizabeth Jurisich*, The College of Charleston
  Ben Cox, The College of Charleston
  (1072-17-179)

Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, III
Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Conformal blocks on nodal curves.
  Scott Carnahan*, IPMU, University of Tokyo
  (1072-17-125)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Supersymmetric vertex operator superalgebras and twisted constructions arising in superconformal field theory.
  Katrina D. Barron*, University of Notre Dame
  (1072-17-208)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A lightcone construction of the Tits buildings of a rank 2 hyperbolic Kac-Moody group.
  Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
  Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
  Walter Freyn, University of Muenster
  (1072-20-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $N$-point Virasoro algebras and their modules of densities.
  Ben Cox*, The College of Charleston
  Xiangqian Guo, Zhengzhou University
  Rencai Lu, Suzhou University
  Kaiming Zhao, Wilfrid Laurier University
  (1072-17-182)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conformal field theory and a new geometry.
  Liang Kong*, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing
  (1072-17-13)

Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, IV
Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Vector-valued modular forms and the Riemann-Hilbert problem.
  Terry Gannon*, Dept of Math, U of Alberta
  (1072-11-274)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Homotopy Relations for Topological VOA.
  Anton Zeitlin*, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
  (1072-81-151)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Vertex operator algebra $1$-point functions and Jacobi forms.
  Matthew T Krauel*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (1072-81-237)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Decomposition of level-1 representations of $D_4^{(1)}$ with respect to its subalgebra $G_2^{(1)}$ in the spinor construction.
  Quincy Loney*, SUNY Cortland
  Alex J Feingold, Binghamton University
  (1072-17-228)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Vertex Operator Algebras Associated to Type G Affine Lie Algebras.
  Jonathan Axtell*, University of Connecticut
  Kyu-Hwan Lee, University of Connecticut
  (1072-17-236)