Graduate Students' Vertex Operator Algebra Seminar

Funded by GSA via Math GSO

Fall 2012

Mondays, 5 - 6 PM    |    Hill 525

Past Talks

• A logarithmic twisted construction (continued)
  Thomas Robinson
  Dec 10, 2012
  
  Abstract:
  I'll construct an example satisfying a logarithmic analogue of the twisted Jacobi identity.


• A logarithmic twisted construction
  Thomas Robinson
  Dec 3, 2012
  
  Abstract:
  I'll construct an example satisfying a logarithmic analogue of the twisted Jacobi identity.


• Chiral de Rham Complex (continued)
  Jinwei Yang
  Nov 26, 2012
  
  References:
  [1] F. Malikov, V. Schechtman, A. Vaintrob, "Chiral de Rham complex", arXiv:math/9803041. [article]


• Chiral de Rham Complex (continued)
  Jinwei Yang
  Nov 19, 2012
  
  References:
  [1] F. Malikov, V. Schechtman, A. Vaintrob, "Chiral de Rham complex", arXiv:math/9803041. [article]


• Chiral de Rham Complex
  Jinwei Yang
  Nov 12, 2012
  
  References:
  [1] F. Malikov, V. Schechtman, A. Vaintrob, "Chiral de Rham complex", arXiv:math/9803041. [article]


• An exposition of KZ equations
  Shashank Kanade
  Postponed to Nov 5, 2012
  
  This exposition will be based on the following paper:
  Y.-Z. Huang and J. Lepowsky, "Intertwining operator algebras and vertex tensor categories for affine Lie algebras", Duke Math. J. 99 (1999), 113-134. [article]


• Lepowsky-Wilson's Z-algebras (continued)
  Shashank Kanade
  Oct 22, 2012
  
  References:
  [1] J. Lepowsky and R. Wilson, "The structure of standard modules, I: Universal algebras and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities", Invent. Math. 77 (1984), 199-290. [article]
  [2] C. Dong and J. Lepowsky, "Generalized Vertex Algebras and Relative Vertex Operators" , Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 112, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1993.


• Quantum groups: very basic facts
  Fei Qi
  Oct 15, 2012
  
  References:
  [1] J. C. Jantzen, "Lectures on Quantum Groups", AMS, 1996.
  [2] V. G. Drinfel'd, "Quantum groups", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Berkeley, Calif., 1986), 798 - 820, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1987. [article]


• Vertex algebra bundles (continued)
  Bud Coulson
  Oct 8, 2012
  


• Vertex algebra bundles
  Bud Coulson
  Oct 1, 2012
  


• Lepowsky-Wilson's Z-algebras
  Shashank Kanade
  Sept 24, 2012
  
  References:
  [1] J. Lepowsky and R. Wilson, "Z-algebras and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities", in: Vertex operators in mathematics and physics, Proc. 1983 M.S.R.I. conference, ed. by J. Lepowsky, S. Mandelstam and I. M. Singer, Publ. Math. Sciences Res. Inst. #3, Springer-Verlag, 1985, 97-142.
  [2] J. Lepowsky and R. Wilson, "The structure of standard modules, I: Universal algebras and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities", Invent. Math. 77 (1984), 199-290. [article]
  [3] J. Lepowsky, "Affine Lie algebras and combinatorial identities", Proc. 1981 Rutgers Conference on Lie Algebras and Related Topics, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics 933, (1982), 130-156.


• Basic facts about vertex operator algebras
  Jinwei Yang
  Sept 17, 2012
  

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