AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

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

Friday March 27, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
Room 130, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
David N. Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
Louis Crane, Kansas State University crane@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 8:45 a.m.
  Kauffman bracket skein modules and the noncommutative torus.
  Razvan Gelca*, University of Michigan
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  (932-57-106)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Vassiliev's knot invariants and the lower central series of the pure braid groups.
  Theodore B Stanford*, US Naval Academy
  (932-57-194)
- 10:15 a.m.
  The Kauffman Bracket Skein Module at Roots of Unity, and Reduced Observables.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (932-57-188)

Friday March 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
Room 130, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
David N. Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
Louis Crane, Kansas State University crane@math.ksu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  How to integrate a knot.
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (932-57-191)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Discrete Physics and Topological Quantum Field Theory.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, Univ of IL at Chicago
  (932-55-173)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Diagrammatic Moves Associated to Higher Category Structures .
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Ill, Chicago
  Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
  (932-57-134)
- 4:45 p.m.
  State sums for triangulated $4$-manifolds and their diagrammatics.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St. Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (932-57-131)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, III
Room 130, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
David N. Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
Louis Crane, Kansas State University crane@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 8:45 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  State sum models for quantum gravity.
  John W Barrett*, University of Nottingham
  (932-83-209)
- 10:15 a.m.
  State Sum Models, Spin Foam Models, Quantum Gravity .
  Carlo Rovelli*, Pittsburgh University
  (932-83-116)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
Room 130, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
David N. Yetter, Kansas State University dyetter@math.ksu.edu
Louis Crane, Kansas State University crane@math.ksu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cabling HOMFLY-Vassiliev knot invariants.
  Sergei Chmutov, Program System Institute, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Columbia University
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University
  (932-57-184)
- 3:15 p.m.
  ${\cal S}_{2,\infty}(H_n\# H_m;Z[A^{\pm 1}],A)$.
  J\'ozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (932-57-210)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lattice Gauge Field Theory.
  Doug Bullock*, George Washington Univ.
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (932-57-125)

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