Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:14

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Thursday January 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on New Connections Between Topology, Combinatorics, and Physics, I
  Virginia Suite B, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
  Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Diagrammatics of biadjoint functors and beyond.
    Mikhail Khovanov*, Columbia University
    (1046-18-738)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Self-duality and generalized differential cohomology.
    Gregory W. Moore*, Rutgers University
    (1046-81-931)
• Thursday January 8, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on New Connections Between Topology, Combinatorics, and Physics, II
  Virginia Suite B, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
  Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Certain enumeration problems in 2-dimensional topology.
    Vladimir Turaev*, Indiana University
    (1046-57-293)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quantum Noise and the Entanglement Entropy of Fermions.
    Israel Klich*, University of Virginia
    (1046-81-1509)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Blob homology.
    Scott Morrison*, Microsoft Station Q
    (1046-57-925)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum Hall wavefunctions and topological quantum field theories.
    Nicholas Read*, Yale University
    (1046-81-736)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Invariants of links with flat connections in the complement.
    Nicolai Reshetikhin*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1046-57-1026)