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Spring Western Sectional Meeting
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
April 9-10, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1119

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on Fusion Categories and Topological Phases of Matter

• Saturday April 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Topological Phases of Matter, I
  Room 214, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory paul.bruillard@pnnl.gov
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the classification of weakly integral modular categories.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Louisiana State University
    (1119-20-222)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Classifying low rank modular tensor categories.
    Daniel Creamer*, Texas A&M University
    (1119-18-239)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Enumeration of Self-Dual, Multiplicity 1, Fusion Rings from a Graphical Perspective.
    Stephen J. Young*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Kathleen Nowak, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1119-05-230)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The sixteen-fold way.
    Tobias Hagge*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    César Galindo, Universad de los Andes
    Richard Ng, Louisiana State University
    Julia Yael Plavnik, Texas A&M University
    Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research Station Q and University of California Santa Barbara
    (1119-18-251)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-degenerate quotients of pivotal tensor categories.
    Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
    Henry Tucker*, University of Southern California
    (1119-18-256)
  • 10:50 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday April 10, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Topological Phases of Matter, II
  Room 214, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory paul.bruillard@pnnl.gov
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The current state of the property F conjecture.
    Eric C. Rowell*, Texas A&M University
    (1119-18-86)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Towards finiteness for mapping class group representations from group-theoretical categories.
    Paul Gustafson*, Texas A&M University
    (1119-55-142)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Low-dimensional representations of the three component loop braid group.
    Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Liang Chang, Texas A&M University
    Seung-Moon Hong, University of Toledo
    Julia Plavnik*, Texas A&M University
    Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
    Michael Sun, Mathematisches Institut der Universitat Munster, Germany
    (1119-16-254)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A classification of $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ relations in the Witt group of non-degenerate braided fusion categories.
    Andrew Schopieray*, University of Oregon
    (1119-18-33)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric invariants for fusion categories.
    Matthew Titsworth*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Tobias Hagge, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1119-18-218)
  • 10:50 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday April 10, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Topological Phases of Matter, III
  Room 214, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory paul.bruillard@pnnl.gov
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Bulk-edge Correspondence in 2D Topological Phases of Matter.
    Zhenghan Wang*, Microsoft Research Station Q and Dept. of Math., UCSB.
    (1119-82-95)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Aspects of symmetries in three-dimensional topological phases of matter.
    Meng Cheng*, Microsoft Research Station Q
    (1119-18-255)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conformal nets and unitary fusion categories.
    Marcel Bischoff*, Vanderbilt University
    (1119-81-94)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Categories generated by a trivalent vertex.
    Scott Morrison, Australian National University
    Emily Peters*, Loyola University Chicago
    Noah Snyder, Indiana University
    (1119-18-227)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Categorified trace for module tensor categories over braided tensor categories.
    Andre Henriques, University of Oxford
    David Penneys*, University of California, Los Angeles
    James Tener, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1119-18-190)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Discussion.

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