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Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2001
Meeting #962
Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
AMS Special Session on Braid Groups and Configuration Spaces
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Wednesday January 10, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Braid Groups and Configuration Spaces, I
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@marais.math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@marais.math.lsu.edu
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Wednesday January 10, 2001, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Braid Groups and Configuration Spaces, II
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@marais.math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@marais.math.lsu.edu
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2:15 p.m.
Braids and configuration spaces motivated by robotics.
Robert W Ghrist*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(962-57-1266)
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2:45 p.m.
Configuration Spaces and Braid Groups of Graphs.
Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
(962-57-1042)
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3:15 p.m.
Milnor fibers of hyperplane arrangements.
Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
(962-57-683)
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3:45 p.m.
Equivariant Euler characteristics of some braid groups.
Graham C Denham*, University of Oregon
Nicole M Lemire, University of Oregon
(962-20-1332)
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4:15 p.m.
Orbit configuration spaces and $G$-equivariant loop spaces.
Miguel A Xicotencatl*, CINVESTAV, Mexico city
(962-55-1244)
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4:45 p.m.
On "braid-like" groups for manifolds of dimension at least 3.
Frederick R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
Takeshi Sato, Okayama University
(962-55-987)
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5:15 p.m.
Combinatorics of Real Moduli Spaces.
Satyan L Devadoss*, Ohio State University
(962-55-962)
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Thursday January 11, 2001, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Braid Groups and Configuration Spaces, III
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@marais.math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@marais.math.lsu.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Growth Functions of the Positive Braid Monoid.
Aaron R Bronfman*, Harvard University
(962-20-1192)
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1:30 p.m.
Right-orderability and bi-orderability of braid groups and their generalisations.
Bert Wiest*, UBC (Vancouver)
(962-20-1267)
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2:00 p.m.
Braid constraints on Vassiliev knot invariants.
Oliver Dasbach, University of California, Riverside
Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
(962-57-1385)
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2:30 p.m.
On the cohomology of braid groups with symplectic coefficients.
Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University
Frederick R. Cohen, University of Rochester
(962-20-1338)
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3:00 p.m.
Properties of generalizations of braid groups.
Oliver T Dasbach*, University of California, Riverside
(962-20-1294)
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3:30 p.m.
Analytic invariants of boundary links.
Jerome P Levine*, Brandeis University
Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
(962-57-913)
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