AMS :: Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, March 30, 2014 00:22:10

Associate secretaries:

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Friday March 21, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Physics, I
Room 113, Ayres Hall
Organizers:
Mboyo Esole, Harvard University
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@mail.math.fsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian.
  Jacob Lewis Bourjaily*, Harvard University
  (1097-81-212)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rota-Baxter algebras of singular hypersurfaces and applications to quantum field theory.
  Matilde Marcolli*, Caltech
  Xiang Ni, Caltech
  (1097-81-57)

Saturday March 22, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Physics, II
Room 113, Ayres Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Deformations and Resolutions.
  Antonella Grassi*, University of Pennsylvania
  Jim Halverson, KAVLI, Santa Barbara
  Julius L Shaneson, University of Pennsylvania
  (1097-14-195)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Intersection spaces, perverse sheaves and type IIB string theory.
  Laurentiu G Maxim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Nero Budur, University of Leuven, Belgium
  Markus Banagl, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  (1097-14-74)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Canonical singularities and superconformal field theories.
  David R Morrison*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1097-14-232)

Saturday March 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Physics, III
Room 113, Ayres Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  Classifying and enumerating elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds and associated singularities.
  Washington Taylor*, MIT, Department of physics
  (1097-14-79)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Calabi-Yau threefolds from plane singular curves.
  Anatoly Libgober*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago.
  (1097-14-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Elliptic fibrations with higher rank Mordell-Weil Group: F-theory compactifications with higher rank Abelian Gauge Symmetry.
  Mirjam Cvetic*, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
  (1097-14-270)

Sunday March 23, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities and Physics, IV
Room 113, Ayres Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  R-matrices acting on the cohomology of flag varieties.
  Richard Rimanyi*, UNC Chapel Hill
  (1097-81-167)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric Constraints in Heterotic/F-theory Duality.
  Lara B. Anderson*, Virginia Tech
  (1097-14-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Singularities, swallowtails and topological properties in families of Hamiltonians,.
  Ralph M. Kaufmann*, Purdue University
  Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann, Purdue, Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics
  Sergei Khlebnikov, Purdue, Department of Physics
  (1097-58-201)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Deformations of Superconformal Field Theories.
  Clay Cordova*, Harvard University
  (1097-81-314)