AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:28

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday April 21, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Links, I
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jeff Johannes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas johannes@member.ams.org
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Intrinsically Knotted and Linked Graphs.
  Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
  (965-57-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A-polynomials and twisted Alexander polynomials.
  Andrius Tamulis*, Cardinal Stritch University
  (965-57-157)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Remarks on Khovanov's knot homology.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, University of California, Riverside
  Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon, Eugene
  (965-57-194)
- 10:30 a.m.
  New developments in arithmetic topology.
  Adam S. Sikora*, CRM/ISM, Montreal
  (965-57-220)

Saturday April 21, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Links, II
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jeff Johannes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas johannes@member.ams.org
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On integrality of the colored Jones polynomial and the Ohtsuki invariants.
  Thang T Le*, SUNY Buffalo
  (965-57-170)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Bounds on the exponential growth rate of the colored Jones polynomial.
  Oliver Dasbach, University of California, Riverside
  Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
  (965-57-190)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the nonexistence of a mod 2 Kontsevich integral.
  Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
  (965-57-75)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The first Hochschild homology of $K_t(T^2)$.
  Michael McLendon*, University of Iowa
  (965-57-80)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Integrality for TQFTs.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (965-57-97)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Homflypt Skein Module of a Connected Sum of 3-Manifolds.
  Jianyuan K. Zhong*, Louisiana Tech University
  Patrick M Gilmer, Louisiana State University
  (965-57-45)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Links, III
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jeff Johannes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas johannes@member.ams.org
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Torsion in Knot Concordance.
  Charles Livingston, Indiana University
  Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (965-57-198)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Classification of non-simple 2 generator knots, links, and 3-manifolds.
  Steven A Bleiler*, Portland State University
  David Bachmann, University of Illinois-Chicago
  Amelia Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah
  (965-57-152)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Non-integral exceptional Dehn surgeries.
  Cameron McA. Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  John E. Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
  (965-57-185)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Polynomial splitting of Casson-Gordon invariants.
  Se-Goo Kim*, Indiana University
  (965-57-115)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Whitney disks in 3-dimensional knot theory.
  Rob R Schneiderman*, UC Berkeley
  (965-57-109)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Shadow world evaluation of the Yang-Mills measure.
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (965-57-164)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Links, IV
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jeff Johannes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas johannes@member.ams.org
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Grope Cobordism of Classical Knots.
  Jim Conant*, Cornell University
  Peter Teichner, University of California, San Diego
  (965-57-43)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Seifert Surfaces and Milnor's Invariants.
  Blake Mellor*, Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
  Paul Melvin, Bryn Mawr College
  (965-57-63)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On $n$-equivalence and knot genus.
  Effie Kalfagianni*, MSU
  (965-57-206)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Symplectic form on $t$-colorings of tangles.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (965-57-204)

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