Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 17, 2015 03:30:12
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Quantum Information and Fusion Categories (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
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Sunday January 11, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Quantum Information and Fusion Categories (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), I
Room 007C, Convention Center
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory mrcquantum@gmail.com
Henry J. Tucker, University of Southern California
Amanda Young, University of California, Davis
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8:00 a.m.
On the classification of rank 4 fusion categories.
Ryan Johnson, Grace College
Siu Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
David Penneys, University of California, Los Angeles
Jolie Roat*, Iowa State University
Matthew Titsworth, University of Texas at Dallas
Henry Tucker, University of Southern California
(1106-18-2111) -
8:30 a.m.
TALK CANCELLED: An invariant that distinguishes Tambara-Yamagami categories.
Ryan Timothy Johnson*, Grace College and Theological Seminary
(1106-18-2465) -
9:00 a.m.
On strictly weakly integral modular categories of rank 8 and 9.
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
César Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
Seung-Moon Hong, University of Toledo
Julia Yael Plavnik*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Eric C. Rowell, Texas A&M University
Michael Sun, WWU Münster
(1106-18-2068) -
9:30 a.m.
On integral modular categories of Frobenius-Perron dimension $pq^n$.
Jingcheng Dong*, College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Henry Tucker, University of Southern California
(1106-81-2153) -
10:00 a.m.
Representations of the loop braid group $LB_3$.
Paul Bruillard, Texas A&M University
Liang Chang*, Texas A&M University
Cesar Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
Seung-Moon Hong, University of Toledo
Ian Marshall, University of New Hampshire
Julia Plavnik, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
Michael Sun, University of Oregon
(1106-16-1974) -
10:30 a.m.
Universal Quantum Computation with Metaplectic Anyons.
Xingshan Cui*, University of California, Santa Barbara
Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research, Station Q University of California Santa Barbara
(1106-81-799) -
11:00 a.m.
Patterns of many-body entanglement and tensor category theory.
Xiao-Gang Wen*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1106-18-2090)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday January 11, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Quantum Information and Fusion Categories (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), II
Room 007C, Convention Center
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory mrcquantum@gmail.com
Henry J. Tucker, University of Southern California
Amanda Young, University of California, Davis
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1:00 p.m.
Symmetry, Defects, and Gauging of Topological Phases.
Maissam Barkeshli*, Microsoft Station Q
Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q
Meng Cheng, Microsoft Station Q
Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q
(1106-18-2364) -
2:00 p.m.
Entanglement Spectra in Levin-Wen models for Topological Phases in Two Dimensions.
Yuting Hu*, University of Utah
Brendan G. Pankovich, University of Utah
Yong-Shi Wu, University of Utah; Fudan University
(1106-81-2768) -
2:30 p.m.
Operator algebras and topological quantum phases.
Pieter Naaijkens*, Leibniz University Hannover
(1106-81-1245) -
3:00 p.m.
Classifying small index subfactors.
David Penneys*, University of California, Los Angeles
(1106-46-903) -
3:30 p.m.
Weak amenability for subfactors.
Arnaud Brothier*, Vanderbilt University
(1106-46-662)
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1:00 p.m.