AMS :: Spring Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, December 14, 2018 03:30:05

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, I
Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
Organizers:
David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher Gauss sum and higher central charges of premodular fusion categories.
  Andrew Schopieray, The University of New South Wales Sydney
  Yilong Wang*, The Ohio State University
  (1136-81-515)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Simple virtual skein theories.
  Joshua R. Edge*, Indiana University - Bloomington
  (1136-18-161)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Notion of Quantum Symmetry.
  Marcel Bischoff*, Ohio University
  (1136-18-410)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum groups, quantum channels, and the quantum 6j-symbols.
  Michael Brannan*, Texas A&M University
  Benoit Collins, Kyoto University
  Hun-Hee Lee, Seoul National University
  Sang-Gyun Youn, Seoul National University
  (1136-46-538)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Two Invariants of Three Manifolds from Hopf Algebras.
  Liang Chang, Nankai University
  Shawn X Cui*, Stanford University
  (1136-57-420)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A computational approach to link invariants of modular tensor categories.
  Colleen Delaney*, UC Santa Barbara
  Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q
  César Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
  Eric C. Rowell, Texas A & M
  Alan Tran, UC Santa Barbara
  Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara
  (1136-81-430)

Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, II
Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
Organizers:
David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Fracton (3+1)-TQFTs.
  Zhenghan Wang*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1136-57-180)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Protected edge states in symmetry enriched topological orders: criteria and realizations.
  Yuan-Ming Lu*, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University
  (1136-18-181)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Two new settings for examples of von Neumann dimension.
  Lauren C. Ruth*, University of California, Riverside
  (1136-46-289)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quantum isometries.
  Alexandru Chirvasitu*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (1136-46-182)

Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, III
Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
Organizers:
David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Fine Structure of Third Cohomology of Metabelian Groups.
  Alexei Davydov, Ohio University
  Chris Renner*, Ohio University
  (1136-18-392)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fine structure of third cohomology.
  Alexei Davydov*, Ohio University
  (1136-18-134)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A de Finetti theorem on parafermion algebras.
  Kaifeng Bu, Harvard University and Zhejiang University
  Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University
  Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
  Jinsong Wu, Harvard University and Harbin Institute of Technology
  (1136-46-284)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Energy bounds for intertwining operators of unitary vertex operator algebras.
  Bin Gui*, Vanderbilt University
  (1136-81-233)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Conformal field theories for modular tensor categories with small rank.
  James Tener*, UC Santa Barbara
  Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q and UC Santa Barbara
  (1136-81-292)

Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, IV
Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
Organizers:
David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
- 1:00 p.m.
  Categories generated by a trivalent vertex.
  Scott Morrison, Australian National University
  Emily Peters*, Loyola University Chicago
  Noah Snyder, Indiana University
  (1136-18-607)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Classifying even metaplectic modular categories via gauging.
  Paul Gustafson*, Texas A&M University
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
  Yuze Ruan, Texas A&M University
  (1136-18-468)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Braided Hopf algebra structures on the duals of coends of metaplectic categories.
  Yu Tsumura*, The Ohio State University
  Thomas Kerler, The Ohio State University
  Yilong Wang, The Ohio State University
  (1136-18-581)