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Fall Western Sectional Meeting (formerly at University of New Mexico)

now meeting virtually, PDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
October 23-24, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1172

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

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

Special Session on Tensor Categories and Applications

Saturday October 23, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories and Applications, I
Special Session 9, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University
Sean Sanford, Indiana University scsanfor@iu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Subalgebras of etale algebras and fusion subcategories.
  Sebastian M. Burciu*, IMAR
  (1172-16-233)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Equivariant subcategories of fusion categories.
  Cesar Galindo*, Universidad de Los Andes
  Corey Jones, North Carolina State University
  (1172-18-179)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Decomposing tensor products of bimodules in pointed fusion categories.
  Amrei Oswald*, University of Iowa
  (1172-18-327)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Computing fusion rules for G-extensions of fusion categories.
  Marcel Bischoff, Ohio University
  Corey Jones*, North Carolina State University
  (1172-18-241)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Nondegenerate extensions of near-group braided fusion categories.
  Andrew Schopieray*, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences & University of Alberta
  (1172-18-192)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Orbifolds and minimal modular extensions.
  Siu-Hung Ng*, Louisiana State University
  (1172-20-358)

Saturday October 23, 2021, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories and Applications, II
Special Session 9, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University
Sean Sanford, Indiana University scsanfor@iu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the semisimplicity of braid group representations in braided tensor categories.
  Daniel Copeland*, UC San Diego
  (1172-20-332)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Algebraic structures in group-theoretical fusion categories.
  M. Müller*, Universidade Federal de São joão del-Rei
  Y. Morales, Universidad de los Andes
  J. Plavnik, Indiana University
  A. Ros Camacho, Cardiff University
  A. Tabiri, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Ghana
  C. Walton, Rice University
  (1172-18-128)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Module categories for quantum groups and fusion categories of type A.
  Hans Wenzl*, UC San Diego
  (1172-46-264)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some non-semisimple modular categories constructed from super quantum groups.
  Robert Laugwitz, University of Nottingham
  Guillermo Sanmarco*, Iowa State University
  (1172-16-283)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Frobenius exact symmetric tensor categories.
  Victor Ostrik*, University of Oregon
  (1172-20-265)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Frobenius exact symmetric tensor categories.
  Kevin Coulembier, University of Sydney
  Pavel Etingof*, MIT
  Victor Ostrik, University of Oregon
  (1172-18-180)

Sunday October 24, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories and Applications, III
Special Session 9, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University
Sean Sanford, Indiana University scsanfor@iu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Higher fusion categories as quantum homotopy types.
  Theo Johnson-Freyd, Dalhousie University & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  David Reutter*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
  (1172-18-251)
- 8:30 a.m.
  From subfactors to conformal field theories via physical models.
  Ramona Wolf*, ETH Zurich
  (1172-81-257)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bi-invertible connections in subfactors, and tensor categories.
  David Penneys, The Ohio State University
  Emily Peters*, Loyola University Chicago
  Emily Peters, Indiana University
  (1172-18-296)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  A skein theoretic Carlsson-Mellit algebra.
  Nicolle Gonzalez*, UCLA
  Matt Hogancamp, Northeastern University
  (1172-05-343)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A lattice model for condensation in Levin-Wen systems.
  Jessica Christian, University of Maryland, Baltimore College
  David Green, Ohio State University
  Peter Huston*, Ohio State University
  David Penneys, Ohio State University
  (1172-81-263)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Pivotal categories, tangles, and the Kashiwara-Vergne groups.
  Zsuzsanna Dancso, The University of Sydney
  Iva Halacheva*, Northeastern University
  Marcy Robertson, The University of Melbourne
  (1172-22-275)

Sunday October 24, 2021, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories and Applications, IV
Special Session 9, American Mathematical Society
Organizers:
Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University
Sean Sanford, Indiana University scsanfor@iu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  The relative Künneth theorem.
  Pablo S. Ocal*, UCLA
  (1172-18-277)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Can a Zhang twist be a 2-cocycle twist?
  Hongdi Huang*, Rice University
  Van Nguyen, United States Naval Academy
  Charlotte Ure, University of Virginia
  Kent Vashaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Padmini Veerapen, Tennessee Tech University
  Xingting Wang, Howard University
  (1172-16-312)
- 3:00 p.m.
  From torus bundles to particle-hole equivariantization.
  Xingshan Cui, Purdue University
  Paul Gustafson, University of Pennsylvania
  Yang Qiu, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Qing Zhang*, Purdue University
  (1172-18-230)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Frobenius-Schur indicators and Morita equivalence for some families of quadratic fusion categories.
  Henry J. Tucker*, University of California, Riverside
  (1172-18-347)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Classification of Z/2Z-quadratic unitary fusion categories.
  Cain Edie-Michell, UC San Diego
  Masaki Izumi, University of Kyoto
  David Penneys*, The Ohio State University
  (1172-18-153)

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