AMS :: Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 13, 2013 00:24:55

Associate secretaries:

Steven H. Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topology and Generalized Cohomologies in Modern Condensed Matter Physics, I
Room S201, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Robert Kotiuga, Boston University prk@bu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The mathematical language to describe many-body quantum entanglement: fusion category theory and group cohomology theory.
  Xiao-Gang Wen*, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  (1088-18-232)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Raoul Bott's later work on physics-inspired mathematics.
  Loring Tu*, Tufts University
  (1088-57-279)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Configuration space integrals in the study of knot and link spaces.
  Ismar Volic*, Wellesley College
  (1088-55-21)

Sunday April 7, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Generalized Cohomologies in Modern Condensed Matter Physics, II
Room S201, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Robert Kotiuga, Boston University prk@bu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Massey products, imperfect Morse functions and micromagnetic exchange energy.
  P. Robert Kotiuga*, ECE Dept., Boston University.
  (1088-58-281)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Remarks on the asymptotic invariants of divergence free vector fields.
  Rafal Komendarczyk*, Tulane University (Mathematics)
  (1088-53-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Topology and quantum geometry in flat electronic bands.
  Titus Neupert*, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
  Claudio Chamon, Boston Universisty
  Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  (1088-81-258)