AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Smooth 4-manifolds, I
Room 217, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John W. Morgan, Columbia University
Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University quinn@math.vt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gauge theory and invariants of homology 4-cobordism
  Nikolai N. Saveliev*,
  (914-57-21)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Links of singularities in moduli spaces of non-abelian monopoles
  Paul M. N. Feehan*, Harvard University
  (914-58-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  ${\underline {SW}}$=Milnor torsion
  Guowu Meng*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Clifford H. Taubes, Harvard University
  (914-51-391)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Link of Reducibles in The Moduli Space of $SO(3)$ Monopoles
  Thomas G Leness*, Michigan State University
  (914-57-78)

Saturday October 5, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Smooth 4-manifolds, II
Room 217, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John W. Morgan, Columbia University
Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University quinn@math.vt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Numerical Seiberg-Witten Invariants
  John D. Randall*, Dept of Math \& CS, Rutgers University, Newark NJ 07102
  (914-57-225)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stein manifolds and contact structures
  Paolo Lisca, Universita' di Pisa, Italy
  Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
  (914-57-137)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Irreducible $4$-manifolds need not be symplectic.
  Zoltan Szabo*,
  (914-57-396)
- 4:30 p.m.
  (3+1)-dimensional topological field theories from 2-categories
  Frank S. Quinn*,
  (914-57-134)

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