Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces

 

University of Connecticut

 

October 27 – 28, 2006

 

Participants

 

Vladimir Chernov       Dartmouth College 

Poisson and other algebras on bordism groups of garlands

 

Marilyn Daily              Max Planck Institute                     

Moduli spaces of  L - ∞ structures

 

Satyan Devadoss         Williams College                          

Realization of graph-associahedra

 

Rebecca Goldin           George Mason Univ                     

The orbifold cohomology of a global quotient of a manifold by an abelian Lie group

 

Li Guo                         Rutgers-Newark                           

Renormalization of multiple zeta values

 

Benjamin Howard       Univ of Maryland                         

The moduli space of n points on the line is cut out by quadrics when n is not six

 

Ralph Kaufmann         Univ of Connecticut                     

Moduli space actions on the Hochschild c0-chains of a Frobenius space

 

Tom Lada                    N.C. State Univ                            

Brace and  ∞-algebras

 

Michael Penkava         Univ of Wisconsin-Eau Claire     

The orbifold structure of moduli spaces of algebras

 

Rachel Schwell           Univ of Conn                               

Solving the A-∞ Deligne conjecture with polytopes

 

Jim Stasheff                 U Penn and Emeritus UNC-CH   

A compact set of compactified moduli spaces

 

Ron Umble                  Millersville Univ                          

The category of  A-∞ bialgebras and applications

 

Javier Zuniga               Univ of Minnesota                       

Quantum master equation of open-closed string theory