AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:58

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday October 30, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Topological Quantum Field Theory, I
Room 58, Rike Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantum physics and categorical topology.
  Louis Crane*, Yale University
  (876-55-08)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The generalized Casson invariant and branched covers of knots.
  David T. Mullins*, New College, Univeristy of South Florida
  (876-57-256)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Knot complement problem in three manifolds.
  Yongwu Rong*, Michigan State University
  (876-57-12)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Triangulations and TQFT's.
  David N. Yetter*, Kansas State University
  (876-57-114)

Friday October 30, 1992, 7:00 p.m.-9:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Topological Quantum Field Theory, II
Room 58, Rike Hall
- 7:00 p.m.
  A counterexample to the Kirby-Melvin and Reshetikhin-Turaev formulations of the Witten invariant.
  Francis D. Lonergan*, Webster, Massachusetts
  (876-55-21)
- 7:30 p.m.
  Minimal energy electrostatic knots.
  Sam Lomonaco*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  (876-78-212)
- 8:00 p.m.
  A method of computing Arf invariants.
  Patrick M. Gilmer*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (876-57-113)
- 8:30 p.m.
  Topological invariants and integration.
  Dan Freed*, University of Texas, Austin
  (876-57-276)

Saturday October 31, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Topological Quantum Field Theory, III
Room 58, Rike Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  Knots, cablings and quantum field theory.
  Christopher King*, Northeastern University
  (876-81-47)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Latticized Abelian Chern-Simons theory and knot invariants on Riemann surfaces.
  David Eliezer*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
  G. W. Semenoff, University of British Columbia
  M. Bergeron, University of British Columbia
  (876-57-268)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quantum gravity and the Jones polynomial.
  Jorge Pullin*, University of Utah
  (876-83-07)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Global gravitational anomaly-free topological field theory.
  Randy A. Baadhio*, University of California, Berkeley
  (876-81-45)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Triangulations, categories and topological field theory.
  Ruth J. Lawrence*, Harvard University
  (876-57-235)

Saturday October 31, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Topological Quantum Field Theory, IV
Room 58, Rike Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  Diagrammatic invariants of knotted curves and surfaces.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Masahico Saito, University of Texas, Austin
  (876-57-218)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Smoothings of higher dimensional knots and remarks on simplex equations.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Masahico Saito*, University of Texas, Austin
  (876-57-185)
- 4:00 p.m.
  2-categories and 2-knots.
  John E. Fischer, Jr.*, Yale University
  (876-57-14)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 4:30 p.m.
  Multidimensional integrability, D-algebras, and the D-simplex equations.
  Frank Nijhoff*, Clarkson University
  (876-16-13)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Knots, tangles and electrical networks.
  Jay R. Goldman*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (876-57-205)

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