AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:38

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, I
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Chern-Simons invariant for ideal hyperbolic polyhedra
  Walter D Neumann*, Melbourne University, Australia
  Jun Yang, Duke University
  (919-57-168)
- 9:20 a.m.
  A universal finite type invariant for integral homology 3-spheres
  Thang T. Q. Le*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (919-57-53)
- 9:55 a.m.
  On the virtual automorphism group of hyperbolic surface groups
  Christopher T. Odden*, Duke University
  (919-20-235)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Burau Representation and Random Walk on String Links
  Xiao-song Lin, University of California, Riverside and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Feng Tian, University of California, San Diego
  Zhenghan Wang*, Indiana University at Bloomington
  (919-57-312)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, II
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the structure of the Torelli group
  Stavros Garoufalidis*,
  (919-57-189)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Finite type 3-manifold invariants and holomorphic functions
  Ruth Lawrence*, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (919-57-301)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Hyper-Kahler Geometry and Invariants of 3-Manifolds
  Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study
  Lev Rozansky*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (919-57-210)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Stable formality of moduli space
  Alexander A. Voronov*, M.I.T.
  (919-57-266)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, III
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Finite-type $3$-manifold invariants and the lower central series ofthe Torelli group.
  Jerome Paul Levine*, Brandeis University
  Stavros Garoufalidis, Harvard University
  (919-57-239)
- 9:20 a.m.
  p-adic Lie groups and splittings of 3-manifold groups
  Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Alan Reid*, University of Texas, Austin
  (919-57-187)
- 9:55 a.m.
  Generalizing Casson's invariant from SU(2) to SU(3)
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  Chris Herald, Swarthmore College
  (919-57-111)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Embedding Incompressible Surfaces in Three-Manifolds
  Hugh Nelson Howards*, University of California, San Diego
  (919-54-178)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Kauffman bracket skein algebra of links and arcs.
  J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (919-57-313)
- 3:05 p.m.
  The Quest for the Minimum Volume Orientable Cusped Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
  Chun Christopher Cao, Boston College
  G. Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
  (919-57-311)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Construction and Classification of 1+1+1-dim TQFT's.
  Thomas Kerler*, Ohio State University
  Volodimir Lyubashenko, Kansas State University
  (919-55-302)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Four vertex theorem and contact topology
  Thomas K.-K. Au, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
  (919-57-270)

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