AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

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)

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