AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Friday, March 31, 2006 00:42:21

2006 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Notre Dame, IN, April 8-9, 2006
Meeting #1016

• Saturday April 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Physics, I
  Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
  Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Quantum Master Equation of Open-Closed String Theory.
    Eric Harrelson, University of Minnesota
    Alexander A. Voronov*, University of Minnesota
    Javier Zuniga, University of Minnesota
    (1016-81-125)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conformal Structures and Metric Triangulations.
    Scott O Wilson*, University of Minnesota
    (1016-55-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ideas about elliptic cohomology and twisted K-theory from open string theory.
    Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1016-55-245)
• Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Physics, II
  Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
  Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Superconnections and Superparallel Transport.
    Florin O. Dumitrescu*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-55-213)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modular operads revisited.
    Ezra Getzler*, Northwestern University
    (1016-18-168)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Physics, III
  Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
  Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Canonical metric connections associated to string structures.
    D. Corbett Redden*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-55-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Physical free loopspaces.
    Jack Morava*, Johns Hopkins University
    Nitu Kitchloo, University of California at San Diego
    (1016-57-315)

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