AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 5, 2016 03:30:05

Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis campus), Minneapolis, MN
October 28-30, 2016 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1123

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

• Friday October 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Field Theories and Geometric Representation Theory, I
  TMH 351, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Emily Cliff, University of Oxford
  Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@illinois.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Equivariant elliptic cohomology and characters of loop group representations.
    Daniel Berwick-Evans*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1123-55-216)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On gauging symmetry of modular categories.
    Shawn X. Cui, Stanford University
    César Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
    Julia Plavnik*, Texas A&M University
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research, Station Q, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1123-18-148)
• Saturday October 29, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Field Theories and Geometric Representation Theory, II
  TMH 351, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Emily Cliff, University of Oxford
  Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@illinois.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Twisted complexes and homotopy limits of dg categories.
    Jonathan Block, University of Pennsylvania
    Julian Holstein, Lancaster University
    Zhaoting Wei*, Kent State University
    (1123-14-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Higher enveloping algebras.
    Ben Knudsen*, Harvard University
    (1123-55-98)
• Saturday October 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Field Theories and Geometric Representation Theory, III
  TMH 351, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Emily Cliff, University of Oxford
  Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@illinois.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cacti, crystals, and monodromy of the shift of argument algebras.
    Iva Halacheva*, Lancaster University
    Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto
    Leonid Rybnikov, Higher School or Economics
    Alex Weekes, Perimeter Institute
    (1123-16-228)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    2-Representation Theory of $p$-DG 2-Categories.
    Robert Laugwitz*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Vanessa Miemietz, University of East Anglia
    (1123-18-195)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Field Theories and Geometric Representation Theory, IV
  TMH 351, Terrence Murphy Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebras and modules from boundary quantum field theory.
    Ryan E Grady*, Montana State University
    Dylan Butson, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Brian Williams, Northwestern University
    Philsang Yoo, Northwestern University
    (1123-17-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Field Theories and Langlands Dualities.
    Philsang Yoo*, Northwestern University
    (1123-81-102)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Monopoles, Vortices, and Vermas.
    Mathew Bullimore, Oxford
    Tudor Dimofte, University of California, Davis
    Davide Gaiotto, Perimeter Institute
    Justin Hilburn*, University of Pennsylvania
    Hee-Cheol Kim, Perimeter Institute
    (1123-14-290)