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Fall Western Sectional Meeting
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
November 4-5, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1134
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Tensor Categories: Bridging Algebra, Topology, and Physics
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Saturday November 4, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories: Bridging Algebra, Topology, and Physics, I
Room 265, Highlander Union Building
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego hjtucker@ucsd.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Classification of ribbon categories with SO(N) fusion rules.
Daniel R Copeland*, UC San Diego
(1134-20-338) -
8:30 a.m.
Reconstructing Spinor Categories.
Hans Wenzl*, UC San Diego
(1134-16-417) -
9:00 a.m.
Towards Property F for metaplectic modular categories.
Paul P Gustafson*, Texas A&M University
(1134-18-369) -
9:30 a.m.
On Generalized Metaplectic Modular Categories.
Marcel Bischoff*, Ohio University
(1134-18-348) -
10:00 a.m.
Spin, super and fermionic modular categories.
Eric Carson Rowell*, Texas A&M University
(1134-18-345)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories: Bridging Algebra, Topology, and Physics, II
Room 265, Highlander Union Building
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego hjtucker@ucsd.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Autoequivalences of tensor categories attached to quantum groups at roots of $1$.
Alexei Davydov, Ohio University
Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dmitri Nikshych*, University of New Hampshire
(1134-16-357) -
4:00 p.m.
Classifying pointed braided finite tensor categories.
Costel Gabriel Bontea*, University of New Hampshire
Dmitri Nikshych, University of New Hampshire
(1134-18-374) -
4:30 p.m.
The five-term exact sequence for Kac cohomology.
Yiby Morales*, Universidad de los Andes
César Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
(1134-16-366) -
5:00 p.m.
Commutative Algebra in the Verlinde Category.
Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victor Ostrik, University of Oregon, Eugene
Siddharth Venkatesh*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1134-13-383) -
5:30 p.m.
Toward Derived Hopf-Galois Extensions.
Jonathan Beardsley*, University of Washington
(1134-18-166)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday November 5, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories: Bridging Algebra, Topology, and Physics, III
Room 265, Highlander Union Building
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego hjtucker@ucsd.edu
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8:00 a.m.
How a quantum computer might work.
Stephen Bigelow*, University of California at Santa Barbara
(1134-57-426) -
8:30 a.m.
TQFT, n-categories, and surfaces.
L. Fadali*, Occidental College
(1134-57-456) -
9:00 a.m.
Skein Theory and Asymptotic Faithfulness.
Wade Bloomquist*, UC Santa Barbara
Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research Station Q and UC Santa Barbara
(1134-54-368) -
9:30 a.m.
Construction of Segal CFTs.
James Tener*, UC Santa Barbara
(1134-81-277) -
10:00 a.m.
Invariants of knots with flat connections in the complement.
N. Reshetikhin*, UC Berkeley
(1134-81-373)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday November 5, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories: Bridging Algebra, Topology, and Physics, IV
Room 265, Highlander Union Building
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego hjtucker@ucsd.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Reflection Hopf Algebras.
Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
(1134-16-405) -
2:30 p.m.
A Diagrammatic Categorification of the Boson-Fermion Correspondence.
Nicolle E.S. Gonzalez*, University of Southern California
(1134-18-443) -
3:00 p.m.
Modular extensions of symmetric fusion categories.
Robert B. Usher*, University of Oregon
(1134-18-438) -
3:30 p.m.
Subcategories of an equivariantization.
Alex S E Levin*, University of New Hampshire
(1134-20-358) -
4:00 p.m.
Faithfulness of the lifting for fusion categories.
Pavel Etingof*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1134-18-162)
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2:00 p.m.
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