Tensor Categories and Representation Theory

Saturday, January 7, AMS Special Session
2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts

Organizers: Deepak Naidu (Northern Illinois University) and Dmitri Nikshych (University of New Hampshire)

The special session begins at 8 AM and ends at 6 PM on Saturday, January 7, 2012.

We plan to have 16 speakers. Each talk is scheduled for 20 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions.

Confirmed Speakers (as of 21 September 2011)

• Sebastian Burciu, Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. [abstract]
• Jonathan Comes, Lewis & Clark College. [abstract]
• Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [abstract]
• Shlomo Gelaki, Technion, Israel. [abstract]
• Istvan Heckenberger, Philipps-Universität Marburg. [abstract]
• Miodrag Iovanov, University of Southern California. [abstract]
• David Jordan, University of Texas Austin. [abstract]
• Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California. [abstract]
• Richard Ng, Iowa State University. [abstract]
• Emily Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [abstract]
• David Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago. [abstract]
• Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University. [abstract]
• Noah Snyder, Columbia University. [abstract]
• Yorck Sommerhäuser, University of South Alabama. [abstract]
• Josiah Thornton, University of Oregon. [abstract]
• Maria Vega, Louisiana State University. [abstract]

Schedule

• Saturday, January 07, AM:


• 08:00-08:20    David Radford [abstract]
• 08:30-08:50    Noah Snyder [abstract]
• 09:00-09:20    Istvan Heckenberger [abstract]
• 09:30-09:50    Jonny Comes [abstract]
• 10:00-10:20    Pavel Etingof [abstract]
• 10:30-10:50    Shlomo Gelaki [abstract]


• Saturday, January 07, PM:


• 1:00-1:20    Susan Montgomery [abstract]
• 1:30-1:50    Miodrag Iovanov [abstract]
• 2:00-2:20    Maria Vega [abstract]
• 2:30-2:50    Eric Rowell [abstract]
• 3:00-3:20    Josiah Thornton [abstract]
• 3:30-3:50    Sebastian Burciu [abstract]
• 4:00-4:20    Siu-Hung Ng [abstract]
• 4:30-4:50    Yorck Sommerhäuser, [abstract]
• 5:00-5:20    David Jordan [abstract]
• 5:30-5:50    Emily Peters [abstract]

Registration, Program, and Abstracts

• Conference registration can be done at the 2012 Joint Meetings webpage.
• For the official program, go to the AMS Special Session webpage.
• To submit an abstract, click here.
• The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, September 22, 2011.

Contact Information

• Deepak Naidu,
• Dmitri Nikshych,