Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 26, 2019 03:30:05

Joint Mathematics Meetings

• Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
• January 16-19, 2019 (Wednesday - Saturday)
• Meeting #1145

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Hortensia Soto, MAA hortensia.soto@unco.edu

• Thursday January 17, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and Fusion Categories (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), I
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
  Lauren Ruth, Vanderbilt University lauren.c.ruth@vanderbilt.edu
  Yilong Wang, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Classifying pointed braided finite tensor categories.
    Costel G Bontea*, Colby College
    Dmitri Nikshych, University of New Hampshire
    (1145-18-2425)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classification of spin models on Yang-Baxter planar algebras.
    Joshua R Edge*, Indiana University - Bloomington
    (1145-08-461)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Classification of subfactors by skein theory.
    Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
    (1145-46-1863)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modular data for Drinfel'd centers of near-group fusion categories obtained via the modular graft construction.
    Marcel Bischoff, Ohio University
    Henry Tucker*, UC San Diego
    (1145-18-2763)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Towards fusion rules for permutation extensions of modular tensor categories.
    Colleen Delaney*, UC Santa Barbara
    Eric Samperton, UC Santa Barbara
    (1145-81-2168)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On TQFT representations of mapping class groups with boundary.
    Shuang Ming*, Department of mathematics, University of California, Davis
    Greg Kuperberg, Department of mathematics, University of California, Davis
    (1145-20-503)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Higer Gauss Sums of Modular Categories.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Louisiana State University
    (1145-18-2208)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Fusion rules for $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ permutation gauging.
    Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
    Corey Jones, The Ohio State University
    Julia Plavnik*, Indiana University
    (1145-18-2027)
• Thursday January 17, 2019, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and Fusion Categories (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), II
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
  Lauren Ruth, Vanderbilt University ruth@math.ucr.edu
  Yilong Wang, Louisiana State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topological phases of matter and subfactors.
    Yasuyuki Kawahigashi*, The University of Tokyo
    (1145-46-755)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modular quantum groups at even roots of 1.
    Cris Negron*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1145-16-455)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetry breaking from anyon condensation.
    Marcel Bischoff*, Ohio University
    Corey Jones, The Ohio State University
    Yuan-Ming Lu, The Ohio State University
    David Penneys, The Ohio State University
    (1145-18-1647)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classification of super-modular categories by rank.
    Qing Zhang*, Texas A&M University
    (1145-18-2038)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Permutation gauging of modular categories.
    Corey Jones*, The Ohio State University
    (1145-18-1791)