Workshop on TFTs, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry

Urbana, March 27-29, 2009

A session of the Sectional AMS Meeting

Speakers:

Matthew Ando (Illinois), "Twisted Umkehr maps."
Rina Anno (Chicago), "Stability conditions, Springer fibers, and braids with multiplied threads."
Christopher Brav (Toronto), "The projective McKay correspondence."
Sheldon Katz (Illinois), "BPS invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds."
Kobi Kremnizer (Chicago), "Localization for singular weights and finite W-algebras."
David Nadler (Northwestern): "Character sheaves."
Alexei Oblomkov (UMass), "On GW/DT correspondence with descendants."
Dmytro Shklyarov (Kansas State): "Equivariant topological field theories."
Matt Szczesny (Boston): "Moduli problems and localization functors in orbifold CFT."
Prabhu Venkataraman (Eureka), "The 2-lien of a 2-gerbe."

Tentative Schedule:

Friday, March 27

3-4 Dmytro Shklyarov
4-5 Matthew Szczesny

Saturday, March 28

8:30-9:30 David Nadler
9:30-10:30 Christopher Brav
10:30-11:30 Rina Anno

3-4 Sheldon Katz
4-5 Alexei Oblomkov

Sunday, March 29

9-10 Kobi Kremnizer
10-11 Prabhu Venkataraman
11-12 Matthew Ando

Some details:

Lectures will be 45 minutes long, with substantial breaks in between.
Speakers are asked to submit titles and abstracts through the AMS system here.
Hotel reservations for speakers will be made by the organizers. All others, please make hotel reservations as recommended by the AMS here.
A small amount of financial support may be available for graduate students and recent Ph.Ds. Please contact the organizers for further information.

Organizers: Tom Nevins (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas at Austin).