AMS :: Spring Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, April 20, 2014 00:19:00

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday April 12, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Physics, I
Room 17, Department of Mathematics & Statistics Building
Organizers:
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
Alastair Hamilton, Texas Tech University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and Quantum Infomation.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1100-57-144)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dijkgraaf-Witten theory using cohomology with coefficients in Picard groupoids.
  Amit Sharma*, University of Minnesota
  Alexander A Voronov, University of Minnesota
  (1100-54-237)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Skein Modules and String Topology of oriented 3-manifolds.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1100-57-235)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hamiltonian reduction and the AKSZ formalism.
  Pavel Safronov*, UT Austin
  (1100-14-220)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Example of an Extended Topological Quantum Field Theory.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1100-57-241)

Saturday April 12, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology and Physics, II
Room 17, Department of Mathematics & Statistics Building
Organizers:
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
Alastair Hamilton, Texas Tech University
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Kauffman bracket skein algebra at a root of unity as a Frobenius algebra.
  Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
  (1100-57-173)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Strongly homotopy Lie algebras and BV formalism.
  Denis Bashkirov*, University of Minnesota
  (1100-18-219)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Operator Systems as Quantum Sets, and Applications to Orbits of Quantum Groups.
  Jeremy Sain*, Clarendon College
  (1100-47-63)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A 2-categorical extension of the Reshetikhin-Turaev theory.
  Yu Tsumura*, Purdue University
  (1100-57-170)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Graph-theoretic formulas of star products on Kaehler manifolds.
  Alexander Karabegov*, Abilene Christian University
  (1100-53-62)

Sunday April 13, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Topology and Physics, III
Room 17, Department of Mathematics & Statistics Building
Organizers:
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
Alastair Hamilton, Texas Tech University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Knot Theory motivated $t$-simplicial modules.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington U., UMCP, and GU
  (1100-57-141)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tropical D-branes, tropical solitons.
  Gabriel D Kerr*, Kansas State University
  (1100-53-151)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Laminations in Higher Teichmuller Theory.
  Ian Le*, University of Chicago
  (1100-22-282)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Catalan States of Generalized Crossing.
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski*, University of Texas at Dallas
  Changsong Li, University of Texas at Dallas
  (1100-57-275)