AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:52

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Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Saturday November 9, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting Phenomena in the Natural Sciences, I
ROOM 2115, Girvetz Hall
- 7:30 a.m.
  Knot generation, identification and enumeration.
  Kenneth C. Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-57-70)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spiral waves in oscillating reactions.
  De Witt L. Sumners*, Florida State University
  (870-92-45)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Thickness of knots.
  Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
  (870-57-67)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the energy of knots.
  Michael H. Freedman*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
  (870-57-66)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The ground-state energy function of a knot.
  H. K. Moffatt*, University of Cambridge, England
  (870-57-68)

Saturday November 9, 1991, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Knotting Phenomena in the Natural Sciences, II
ROOM 2115, Girvetz Hall
- 2:15 p.m.
  Dilation factors for braided links.
  Jer\^ome E. Los*, University de Nice, France and University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-54-07)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Knots and braids in dynamical systems.
  Robert F. Williams*, University of Texas, Austin
  (870-34-27)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Replication and recombination knots in DNA.
  Sylvia Spengler*, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California
  (870-57-91)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Polynomial invariants of links and the structure of recombination.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (870-55-19)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Surgery on cusp neighborhoods.
  Ronald J. Stern*, University of California, Irvine
  (870-57-69)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Which automorphisms of complete graphs are realizable in 3-space?
  Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
  (870-57-31)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting Phenomena in the Natural Sciences, III
ROOM 2115, Girvetz Hall
- 7:30 a.m.
  3-manifolds and 2-complexes: Some recent results.
  Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia
  (870-57-71)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Simple balanced categories and invariants of tangles and 3-manifolds.
  Nicolai Reshetikhin*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-57-85)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The quantum G_2 link invariant.
  Greg Kuperberg*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-57-61)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Applications of the spectral parameter tangle of V. Jones.
  J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, University of California, Riverside and Warsaw University, Poland
  (870-57-76)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Alexander invariants.
  Hubert Saleur*, Yale University
  (870-57-86)

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