Homotopical Methods in Geometry and Physics

Gus Schrader, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

• Konstanin Aleshkin and Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Open/closed correspondence and extended LG/CY correpondence for quintic threefolds; Andre Beuckelmann and Ieke Moerdijk, A small catalogue of $E_n$-operads; Indranil Biswas and Eduard Looijenga, Characteristic forms for holomorphic families of local systems; Nathaniel Bottman and Dylan Mavrides, The 2-aassociahedra are Eulerian; Zsuzsanna Dancso, Tamara Hogan, and Marcy Robertson, A knot-theoretic approach to comparing the Grothendieck-Teichmuller and Kashiwara-Verge groups; Ben Davison, Affine BPS algebras, W algebras, and the cohomological Hall algebra of $\mathbb{A}^2$; Mikhail Kapranov and Vadim Schechtman, PROBs and perverse sheaves II. Ran spaces and 0-cycles with coefficients; Boris Tsygan, Gauss-Manin connection in noncommutative geometry; Jesse Wolfson, On simplicial principal bundles in descent categories