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Spring Western Sectional Meeting (formerly at San Francisco State University)

now meeting virtually, PDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), San Francisco, CA
May 1-2, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1167

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

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

AMS 2021 Spring Sectional Meetings will be held VIRTUALLY on the originally planned dates. Further details will be posted as soon as they are available. Send questions to meet@ams.org.

Special Session on Connections between homotopical algebra and geometry

Saturday May 1, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Connections between homotopical algebra and geometry, I
Special Session 6, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Ryan Grady, Montana State University ryan.grady1@montana.edu
Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno
- 8:00 a.m.
  Lie theory for $L_\infty$-algebras.
  Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno
  Jesse Wolfson*, University of California, Irvine
  (1167-22-211)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An $A_{\infty}$ analog of the Goldman-Millson Theorem in characteristic $p$.
  Patricia Milham*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1167-55-217)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Flowing from intersection product to cup product.
  Greg Friedman, Texas Christian University
  Anibal Medina, Max Planck Institute
  Dev Sinha*, University of Oregon
  (1167-55-19)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Natural Stratifications of Reeb Spaces.
  Ryan E. Grady, Montana State University
  Anna Schenfisch*, Montana State University
  (1167-55-63)

Saturday May 1, 2021, 2:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Connections between homotopical algebra and geometry, II
Special Session 6, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Ryan Grady, Montana State University ryan.grady1@montana.edu
Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno
- 2:00 p.m.
  Expansions, completions and automorphisms of welded tangled foams.
  Zsuzsanna Dancso, University of Sydney
  Iva Halacheva, Northeastern University
  Marcy Robertson*, University of Melbourne
  (1167-55-220)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The combinatorics of configuration spaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$.
  Anna Cepek*, Bozeman, MT
  (1167-57-53)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Higher homotopical structures in symplectic geometry.
  Hiro Lee Tanaka*, Texas State University
  (1167-55-131)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Orientation twisted transgression in representation theory and physics.
  Matthew B. Young*, Utah State University
  (1167-18-69)

Sunday May 2, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Connections between homotopical algebra and geometry, III
Special Session 6, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Ryan Grady, Montana State University ryan.grady1@montana.edu
Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno
- 8:00 a.m.
  The coalgebraic structure of the chains on a space determines the fundamental group.
  Manuel Rivera*, Purdue University
  Mahmoud Zeinalian, Lehman College CUNY
  Felix Wierstra, University of Paris, Stockholm University
  (1167-55-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The simplicial coalgebra of chains determines homotopy types rationally and one prime at a time.
  Felix Wierstra*, University of Amsterdam
  (1167-55-229)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Complex Lagrangian intersections and applications to skein theory.
  Sam Gunningham*, University of Edinburgh
  Pavel Safronov, University of Edinburgh
  (1167-55-180)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Skein categories as factorisation homology.
  Juliet Cooke*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
  (1167-18-327)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Dehn invariants for algebraic $K$-theory.
  Inna I Zakharevich*, Cornell University
  (1167-18-101)

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