Sectional Meeting: #1097 (Knoxville March 21-23, 2014)
Special Session: Singularities and Physics
Welcome to the informational website for our AMS special session
on Singularities and Physics.
This session is focused on the theory of singularities and its
interactions with different branches of theoretical physics:
singularities of elliptic fibrations in string theory, renormalization
issues in quantum field theory, Landau-Ginzburg models,
Donaldson-Thomas invariants, wall-crossing phenomena, and other recent
points of contact. The aim is to bring together the mathematics and
physics communities, to foster further interactions.
For more information about the Knoxville meeting please go to
http://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/2216_program.html . This site will
provide updated information on the meeting including information
about travel, accommodations, invited lectures, other special sessions,
and instructions for submitting abstracts. Regretfully, the AMS does not
pay expenses for speakers (or organizers) at special sessions, so we
cannot offer any reimbursement for the speakers' (or other participants')
expenses.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Organizers:
Jonathan Mboyo Esole, Harvard University, esole@math.harvard.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University, aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Speakers, and links to abstracts and slides (if available)
of the talks:
- Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech):
Geometric Constraints in Heterotic/F-theory,
slides
- Jacob Bourjaily (Harvard University):
Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian,
slides
- Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania):
Elliptic fibrations with higher rank Mordell-Weil Group: F-theory
compactifications with higher rank Abelian Gauge Symmetry,
slides
- Clay Cordova (Harvard University):
Deformations of superconformal field theories
- Antonella Grassi, University of Pennsylvania:
Deformations and Resolutions,
slides
- Ralph Kaufmann (Purdue University):
Singularities, swallowtails and topological properties in families
of Hamiltonians,
slides
- Anatoly Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Calabi-Yau threefolds from plane singular curves,
slides
- Matilde Marcolli (Caltech):
Rota-Baxter algebras of singular hypersurfaces and applications to
quantum field theory,
slides
- Laurentiu Maxim (University of Wisconsin):
Intersection spaces, perverse sheaves and type IIB string theory,
slides
- Dave Morrison (UC Santa Barbara):
Canonical singularities and superconformal field theories
- Richard Rimanyi (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill):
R-matrices acting on the cohomology of flag varieties
- Washington Taylor (MIT):
Classifying and enumerating elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds
and associated singularities,
slides
Schedule:
Talks are scheduled for 45 minutes, and begin on the hour/half hour.
|
Friday 3/21 |
Saturday, 3/22 |
Sunday, 3/23 |
| 8:00-8:30 |
|
Grassi |
Rimanyi |
| 8:30-9:00 |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Maxim |
Anderson |
| 9:30-10:00 |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Morrison |
Kaufmann |
| 10:30-11:00 |
| 11:00-11:30 |
|
Cordova |
| 11:30-12:00 |
| Break |
|
| 2:30-3:00 |
Taylor |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Bourjaily |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Libgober |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Marcolli |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Cvetic |
| 5:00-5:30 |
|
The official schedule, on the AMS site.
(Last update March 23rd, 2014)