AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Varieties, I
Room 305, TUCC
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, New York University-Courant Institute
Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 8:25 a.m.
  Homology Manifold Bordism.
  Heather M Johnston*, Rutgers University
  Andrew A Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
  (933-57-230)
- 9:05 a.m.
  Analytic torsion for bundles with the covering space of a compact manifold as typical fiber.
  Mel Rothenberg*, University of Chicago
  (933-57-251)
- 9:45 a.m.
  A Bivariant Riemann-Roch Theorem for Geometric Topology.
  Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
  (933-57-247)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Holomorphic K-theory, Algebraic co-cycles and Loop groups.
  Ralph L. Cohen*, Stanford University
  (933-55-206)

Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:35 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Varieties, II
Room 305, TUCC
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, New York University-Courant Institute
Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 2:35 p.m.
  Torelli group action on the homology of representation variety.
  Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
  (933-55-235)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Analytic compactifications of character varieties.
  Georgios Daskalopoulos, Brown University
  Stamatis Dostoglou*, University of Missouri
  Richard Wentworth, U.C. Irvine
  (933-53-134)
- 3:55 p.m.
  The geography problem for symplectic 4-manifolds.
  Zoltan Szabo*, Princeton University
  (933-57-203)
- 4:35 p.m.
  Braid groups and Lagrangian spheres.
  Paul Seidel*, IAS, Princeton
  (933-57-170)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 8:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Varieties, III
Room 305, TUCC
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, New York University-Courant Institute
Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 8:25 a.m.
  The naturality of Kirwan's decomposition.
  Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania
  Amnon Neeman*, University of Virginia
  (933-55-06)
- 9:05 a.m.
  A holomorphic Casson invariant for Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  Richard P Thomas*, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  (933-14-164)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Parametrized Seiberg-Witten theory.
  Tian-Jun Li*, IAS
  Aiko Liu, MIT
  (933-58-179)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The minimal genus problem for a symplectic 4-manifold.
  Peter S Ozsvath*, IAS
  Zoltan Szabo, Princeton University
  (933-57-240)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 2:35 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Varieties, IV
Room 305, TUCC
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, New York University-Courant Institute
Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 2:35 p.m.
  Topology of complements of plane curves.
  Ludmil V Katzarkov, UC Irvine
  Tony G Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
  (933-14-207)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Equivariant K-theory and Casson's Invariant .
  Jonathan L Block*, University of Pennsylvania
  (933-58-246)
- 3:55 p.m.
  Geometry of closed geodesics.
  Joseph A Datskovsky*, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  (933-53-249)
- 4:35 p.m.
  The Isotopy Classification of Real Affine Quartic Curves.
  Anatoly Korchagin, Texas Tech University
  David Weinberg*, Texas Tech University
  (933-14-166)

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