AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31
2003 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, May 3-4, 2003
Meeting #987
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, I
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Gerbe and twisted orbifold quantum cohomology.
Yongbin Ruan*, Wisconsin/HKUST
(987-53-104) -
9:00 a.m.
Inertia Orbifolds, Configuration Spaces and the Ghost Loop Space.
Ernesto Lupercio*, University of Wisconsin
Bernardo Uribe, Max Planck Institute
(987-55-171) -
9:30 a.m.
Gerbes over orbifolds and their TQFTs.
Bernardo Uribe*, Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik
(987-55-61) -
10:00 a.m.
From moduli space of curves to Gromov-Witten invariants.
Xiaobo Liu*, University of Notre Dame
(987-53-78)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, II
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory.
Tom Graber*, UC Berkeley
(987-14-163) -
4:00 p.m.
The stringy Chow rings of $M_2$ and $\overline M_2$.
Dan Abramovich*, Boston University / Brown University
James Spencer, Boston University
(987-14-151) -
4:30 p.m.
The Global Mackay-Ruan Correspondence via Motivic Integration.
Mainak Poddar*, Michigan State University
(987-14-189) -
5:00 p.m.
New cohomological field theories arising from quasi-homogeneous polynomials.
Huijun Fan, Max-Planck Institut fuer Math.
Tyler J Jarvis*, Brigham Young University
Yong-Bin Ruan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(987-14-160) -
5:30 p.m.
Pointed admissible G-covers, equivariant topological field theories and analogies with the moduli space of higher spin curves.
Takashi Kimura*, Institute for Advanced Study
(987-14-192)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday May 4, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, III
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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8:00 a.m.
nKdV hierarchies and A_{n-1}-singularities.
Alexander B Givental*, UC Berkeley
(987-14-103) -
9:00 a.m.
Semisimple Frobenius manifolds and higher spin curves.
Y.-P. Lee*, Univ. of Utah / Princeton U.
(987-14-149) -
10:00 a.m.
Some remarks on Witten's top Chern class.
Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
(987-14-113) -
10:30 a.m.
Witten's top Chern class in K-theory.
Alessandro Chiodo*, Cambridge University, UK
(987-14-127)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 4, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, IV
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A homotopy-theoretical Heisenberg group.
Jack Morava*, Johns Hopkins University
(987-55-183) -
3:30 p.m.
On Gromov-Witten theory for global quotients.
Ralph M Kaufmann*, Oklahoma State University and Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics
(987-14-176) -
4:00 p.m.
A Generalization of Spin Orbifold Quantum Cohomology Arising From Quasi-Homogeneous Polynomials.
Huijun Fan*, MPI in Leipzig, Germany
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young university
Yongbin Ruan, Wisconsin univ.& Hongkong Univ. Sci.& Tech.
(987-53-122)
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3:00 p.m.