AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:02

1999 Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Charlotte, NC, October 15-17, 1999
Meeting #949

• Friday October 15, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology, I
  Room 118, Fretwell Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric P. Klassen, Florida State University klassen@math.fsu.edu
  Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University pkirk@ucs.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Floer Homology and Dehn surgeries along knots in $S^3$ with non-trivial cyclic fundamental group.
    Olivier Collin*, Harvard University
    (949-57-200)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Quantized Flat Connections on Spines of Three-Manifolds.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (949-57-186)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    The Theta Divisor and Three-Manifold Invariants.
    Peter S Ozsvath*, Michigan State University
    Zoltan Szabo, University of MichiganDe
    (949-57-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Immersed symplectic spheres in sympelctic four manifolds.
    Tian-Jun Li*, Princeton University
    (949-57-55)
• Saturday October 16, 1999, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology, II
  Room 118, Fretwell Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric P. Klassen, Florida State University klassen@math.fsu.edu
  Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University pkirk@ucs.indiana.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Finite Type Link Homotopy Invariants.
    Blake Mellor*, Florida Atlantic University, Honors College
    (949-57-97)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Surgery Presentations of 3-dim Framed Relative Cobordisms, and applications to topological quantum field theories with corners.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    Volodimir Lyubashenko, Kiev University
    (949-57-167)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Groups of concordant mutants.
    Paul A. Kirk*, Indiana University
    Charles Livingston, Indiana University
    (949-57-134)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Four dimensional manifolds that become diffeomorphic after one stabilization.
    David R.r Auckly*, Kansas State University
    (949-57-77)
• Saturday October 16, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology, III
  Room 118, Fretwell Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric P. Klassen, Florida State University klassen@math.fsu.edu
  Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University pkirk@ucs.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Witten's conjecture and gluing PU(2) monopoles.
    Paul M Feehan*, Ohio State University
    Thomas G Leness, Florida International University
    (949-58-60)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    PU(2) monopoles and spin polynomials (preliminary report).
    Thomas G Leness*, Florida International University
    Paul M N Feeehan, Ohio State University
    (949-53-27)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Exact triangles in Seiberg--Witten Floer theory.
    Matilde Marcolli*, MIT
    Bai-Ling Wang, University of Adelaide
    (949-57-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Seiberg-Witten theory of rational homology 3-spheres.
    Liviu I Nicolaescu*, University of Notre Dame
    (949-58-130)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Isotopy of 4-manifolds and the Seiberg-Witten equations.
    Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
    (949-57-143)
• Sunday October 17, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
  Room 118, Fretwell Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric P. Klassen, Florida State University klassen@math.fsu.edu
  Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University pkirk@ucs.indiana.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    The SU(3) Casson invariant for homology spheres split along a 2-sphere or a 2-torus: I.
    Hans U Boden, Ohio State University
    Christopher M Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (949-57-214)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    The SU(3) Casson invariant for homology spheres split along a 2-sphere or a 2-torus:II.
    Hans U Boden*, Ohio State University-Mansfield
    Chris M Herald, University of Nevada at Reno
    (949-57-233)
  • 10:50 a.m.
    $SL_2(C)$-knot invariants.
    Weiping Li*, Oklahoma State University
    (949-58-149)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Floer Homology and Homology Cobordisms.
    Kim A Froyshov*, Harvard University
    (949-58-119)