AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:11

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday April 14, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
Room 321, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@marais.math.lsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quandle Homology Classes and Abstract Knot Diagrams.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Daniel Jelsovsky, University of South Florida
  Seiichi Kamada, Osaka City University
  Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
  (954-55-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Chern-Simons Theory, Spin and Framed Three-Manifolds, and the Conjectures of Dijkgraaf and Witten.
  Stephen F Sawin*, Fairfield University
  (954-81-111)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Are the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten invariants determining the holonomy map of a hyperbolic 3-manifold?
  Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (954-57-96)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantum Link Invariants and Oriented Quantum Algebras.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University Of Illinois at Chicago
  (954-57-180)

Saturday April 15, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
Room 321, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@marais.math.lsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Braid conjugation in handlebodies, knot complements and 3-manifolds.
  Sofia Lambropoulou*, Mathematisches Institut, Goettingen Universitaet
  (954-57-198)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Strong Shift Equivalence and Diffeomorphisms.
  Jack Wagoner*, UC Berkeley
  (954-81-63)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Knots, Links and Symbolic Dynamical Systems.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  (954-57-168)

Saturday April 15, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, III
Room 321, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@marais.math.lsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Torelli Group at Roots of Unity.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (954-57-141)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A new theory of "finite type" invariants for 3-manifolds.
  Jerome P Levine*, Brandeis University
  (954-57-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Yang-Mills Measure in the Kauffman bracket skein module.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charlie Frohman*, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (954-57-118)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An analytic definition of the Yang-Mills measure.
  Douglas Bullock, Boise State University
  Charlie Frohman, Boise State University
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (954-57-119)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the Homflypt skein module of $S^1 \times S^2$.
  Jianyuan Zhong*, Louisiana State University
  Patrick M Gilmer, Louisiana State University
  (954-57-78)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:45 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
Room 321, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@marais.math.lsu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Relativistic Spin networks, with topological and physical applications.
  Louis Crane*, Kansas State University
  (954-83-80)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Presentations of $q$-Homotopy Skein Modules of $3$-manifolds.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Siegen University
  (954-57-79)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the noncommutative generalization of the A-polynomial.
  Razvan Gelca*, University of Michigan
  (954-57-193)

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