AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:12

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Friday April 8, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, I
Room 505, Rogers Hall
- 1:00 p.m.
  When can a positive braid be factored?
  Michael C. Sullivan*, City College, City University of New York
  (892-57-08)
- 1:30 p.m.
  The first 801 prime knots.
  Kenneth A. Perko, Jr.*, Rockefeller Group, New York, New York
  (892-57-182)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Embedding curves in the boundary of a handlebody.
  Edith Starr*, Vassar College
  (892-57-185)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Vector braids.
  Vincent L. Moulton*, Duke University
  (892-57-151)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mutations and Witten invariants.
  Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
  (892-57-18)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Incompressible surfaces in link complements.
  Elizabeth Finkelstein*, Dartmouth College
  (892-57-220)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, II
Room 721, Rogers Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Braid algebras,trace modules, and Vassiliev invariants.
  Xiao-Song Lin*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (892-57-231)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mutation and the n-invariant of hyperbolic links.
  Mingqing Ouyang*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (892-57-68)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The volume spectrum of hyperbolic 4-manifolds.
  John Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
  Steven Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
  (892-57-20)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conformally flat cone structures on 3-manifolds.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (892-57-45)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, III
Room 721, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  The numerology of persistent laminations.
  Charles I. Delman*, Pitzer College
  (892-57-219)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Braids, Hecke algebras and the 2-variable Jones polynomial in the lens spaces L(p,1).
  Sofia Lambropoulou*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  J\'ozef H. Przytycki, Odense University, Denmark and Warsaw University, Poland
  (892-57-238)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Finite type invariants for knots in 3-manifolds.
  Efstratia Kalfagianni*, Columbia University
  (892-57-188)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Yang-Baxter models for Vassiliev knot invariants.
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  (892-57-129)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Equivariant Vassiliev invariants.
  Du Nguyen*, University of Ottawa
  (892-17-85)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, IV
Room 721, Rogers Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Pi_1-train tracks, algebraic linearity theorem, and classification of surface diffeomorphisms.
  Zhong-he Chen*, Columbia University
  (892-57-221)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Reshetikhin-Turaev representation of the mapping class group when r=6.
  Gretchen Wright*, Columbia University
  (892-57-186)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An extension of Milnor's barred mu invariants.
  David Miller*, William Paterson College
  (892-57-118)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The unitary structure of the WZW bundle over Teichmuller space.
  Dennis A. McLaughlin*, Princeton University
  Jean-Luc Brylinski, Harvard University
  (892-51-46)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, V
Room 721, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  A formula for computing the SL(2,C) generalized Casson invariant.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, Princeton University
  (892-57-237)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The dimensional ladder for topological field theory.
  Louis Crane*, Kansas State University
  (892-57-183)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometry of the intersection ring of the moduli space of flat connections and the conjectures of Newstead and Witten.
  Jonathan Weitsman*, Columbia University
  (892-58-149)
- 4:00 p.m.
  1 + 1 dimensional topological quantum field theory.
  Stephen Sawin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (892-57-30)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topology of linked defects in condensed matter.
  Vladimir Retakh*, Harvard University
  (892-55-155)

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