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Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
April 1-2, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1127

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Fusion Categories and Applications

• Saturday April 1, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Applications, I
  BH146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A University julia@math.tamu.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Trivalent Categories.
    Noah Snyder*, Indiana University
    Scott Morrison, ANU
    Emily Peters, Loyola University, Chicago
    (1127-18-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commutants of multifusion categories.
    Andre Henriques, University of Oxford/Utrecht University
    David Penneys*, The Ohio State University
    (1127-46-290)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Realizability of Tambara-Yamagami Categories by Conformal Nets.
    Marcel Bischoff*, Vanderbilt University
    (1127-18-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The string Fourier transform on quons.
    Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
    (1127-81-175)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic Faithfulness of Skein Quantum $SU(3)$ Representations.
    Wade Bloomquist*, UC Santa Barbara
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research, Station Q and UC Santa Barbara
    (1127-57-277)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A remark on the volume conjecture.
    Zhenghan Wang*, Microsoft Research Station Q and Dept. of Math., UCSB.
    (1127-57-148)
• Saturday April 1, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Applications, II
  BH146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A University julia@math.tamu.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Integrality and Gauge Dependence of Hennings TQFTs.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
    Qi Chen, Winston-Salem State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1127-57-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Integrality for $SO(p)_2 TQFTs$ in genus 1.
    Yilong Wang*, The Ohio State University
    (1127-81-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The coend and the dihedral type subcategory of a metaplectic category.
    Yu Tsumura*, The Ohio State University
    Thomas Kerler, The Ohio State University
    Yilong Wang, The Ohio State University
    (1127-18-345)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Based rings attached to generators of Coxeter groups.
    Tianyuan Xu*, University of Oregon
    (1127-81-238)
• Sunday April 2, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Applications, III
  BH146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A University julia@math.tamu.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariant rigidity properties from eigenvalues of rotations and braids in spherical fusion categories.
    Daniel Barter, University of Michigan
    Corey Jones, Australian National University
    Henry Tucker*, University of California, San Diego
    (1127-18-401)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Representations of the Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra.
    Helen Wong*, Carleton College
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
    (1127-57-300)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representations of the Necklace Braid Group.
    Andrew Kimball*, Texas A University
    (1127-20-230)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computing quantum mapping class group representations with Haskell.
    Paul Gustafson*, Texas A University
    (1127-18-289)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Congruence subgroups from representation of the three-strand braid group.
    Joseph Ricci*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q and University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1127-20-184)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phylogenetic precategories.
    Vladimir Turaev*, Indiana University
    (1127-18-224)
• Sunday April 2, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Fusion Categories and Applications, IV
  BH146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A University julia@math.tamu.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Fusion square root of the sum of self-dual simple objects.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Louisiana State University
    (1127-20-354)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Third Cohomology and Fusion Categories.
    Alexei Davydov, Ohio University
    Darren A. Simmons*, Ohio University
    (1127-18-237)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Lagrangian correspondences between group-theoretical modular categories.
    Alexei Davydov*, Department of Mathematics/Ohio University
    (1127-18-170)

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