AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:32

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Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday November 1, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Its Interaction With Holomorphic and Symplectic Geometry, I
Room 117, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Stamatis A. Dostoglou, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan Segert, University of Missouri, Columbia jan@segert.cs.missouri.edu
Shuguang Wang, University of Missouri, Columbia sw@wang.cs.missouri.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  Links of singularities and the relationbetween Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth 4-manifolds
  Paul M. N. Feehan*, Harvard University
  (916-58-24)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Low Order Reducibles in The Moduli Space of $SO(3)$ Monopoles
  Thomas G. Leness*, Michigan State University
  (916-57-30)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Minimal genus embedding in $S^2-$bundle over surfaces
  BangHe Li, Institute of System Science,PRC
  Tian-Jun Li*, Yale University
  (916-58-95)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Simple Type is Not a Boundary Phenomenon
  Lorenzo A. Sadun*, University of Texas
  (916-58-82)
- 6:00 p.m.
  A mixed boundary value problem for the full Yang-Mills equationsin dimensions three and four.
  Antonella Marini*, Universita' di L'Aquila/ University of Utah
  (916-35-292)

Saturday November 2, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Its Interaction With Holomorphic and Symplectic Geometry,II
Room 117, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Stamatis A. Dostoglou, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan Segert, University of Missouri, Columbia jan@segert.cs.missouri.edu
Shuguang Wang, University of Missouri, Columbia sw@wang.cs.missouri.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A topological method to compute spectral flow
  Dave R. Auckly*, University of California, Berkeley
  (916-53-210)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The SU(3) Generalized Casson's Invariants for 3-manifolds
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  (916-57-255)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Flat $SL_2{\bf C}$-connections and the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module I
  Doug Bullock*, Boise State University
  (916-57-258)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Flat $SL_2{\bf C}$-connections and the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module II
  Charles D. Frohman*, University of Iowa
  (916-57-257)

Saturday November 2, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Its Interaction With Holomorphic and Symplectic Geometry, III
Room 117, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Stamatis A. Dostoglou, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan Segert, University of Missouri, Columbia jan@segert.cs.missouri.edu
Shuguang Wang, University of Missouri, Columbia sw@wang.cs.missouri.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Essential surfaces in bounded 3-manifolds
  D. Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
  D D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  A W. Reid, University of Texas, Austin
  (916-58-250)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Floer homology of connect sums of Brieskhorn spheres.
  Christopher M. Herald*, Swarthmore College
  (916-58-188)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symplectic Invariants and Floer Homology
  Darko Milinkovic*, University of Wisconsin,Madison
  Yong-Geun Oh, Universityof Wisconsin, Madison
  (916-58-252)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Stability properties of monopoles
  David M. Stuart*,
  (916-35-213)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion-W. Li
- 5:30 p.m.
  Computation formulas for monopole invariants for 3-manifolds
  Rongguang Wang*, HKUST, Hong Kong
  (916-53-266)

Sunday November 3, 1996, 10:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Its Interaction With Holomorphic and Symplectic Geometry,IV
Room 117, General Classroom Building
Organizers:
Stamatis A. Dostoglou, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan Segert, University of Missouri, Columbia jan@segert.cs.missouri.edu
Shuguang Wang, University of Missouri, Columbia sw@wang.cs.missouri.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topological Stability Theorems for Spaces of Rational Curves
  Charles P. Boyer*, University of New Mexico
  (916-55-184)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Vanishing theorems in the Pontrjagin ring of moduli spaces
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Mathematics Dept., McGill University
  Jonathan Weitsman, Mathematics Dept., University of California
  (916-58-179)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Symplectic Structure on the Moduli Space of Flat Connections over Surfaces with Boundary
  Ambar N. Sengupta*, Louisiana State University
  (916-53-76)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Equivariant stable bundles over flat projective bundles are vortices
  Steven B. Bradlow*, UIUC
  Jim Glazebrook, UIUC
  Franz Kamber, UIUC
  (916-14-265)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Discussion-Weitsman

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