AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:31

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

Saturday November 10, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology
Room 114, Rowland Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Computing Kauffman bracket skein modules.
  Doug Bullock*, Boise State University
  Walter LoFaro, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
  (972-57-156)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Hochshild homology of a Heegaard splitting.
  Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Mike McLendon, The University of Iowa
  (972-57-12)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Limiting behavior of the Yang-Mills measure.
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (972-57-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Skein modules and the Berezin quantization of the moduli space of SU(2)-flat connections on the torus.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  (972-57-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Skein Modules and String Topology.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (972-57-83)

Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology
Room 114, Rowland Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Why Turaev-Viro Theory is not a Modular Functor and Why That's OK.
  Stephen French Sawin*, Fairfield University
  John W. Barrett, University of Nottingham
  (972-81-201)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalizations of the Kashaev conjecture.
  Hitoshi Murakami*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  (972-57-49)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The integer valued SU(3) Casson invariant for Brieskorn spheres.
  Hans U Boden, McMaster University
  Paul Kirk, Indiana University
  Christopher M Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (972-57-145)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Cut numbers of 3-manifolds.
  Adam S Sikora*, ISM/CRM
  (972-57-154)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Resolutions of p-Modular TQFT's and the Alexander Polynomial of 3-manifolds.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (972-57-192)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Some structure theory for semisimple monoidal categories.
  Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
  (972-18-174)

Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology
Room 114, Rowland Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Algebraic versions of Markov's theorem in three-spaces.
  Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
  (972-57-153)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Diagrams of Divide Links.
  Sergei V Chmutov*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
  (972-57-15)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homfly polynomials and quantum $sl(N)$ invariants of decorated Hopf links.
  Hugh R Morton*, University of Liverpool, UK
  Sascha G Lukac, University of Liverpool, UK
  (972-57-18)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum Morphing and the Jones Polynomial.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
  Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
  (972-57-132)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Burau representation of string links and its applications.
  Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
  (972-57-116)

Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology
Room 114, Rowland Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Virtual Knots, Biquandles and Bioriented Quantum Algebras.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (972-57-147)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Extensions and cocycle invariants from twisted cohomology theory of quandles.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (972-57-96)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Untwisted $2$-cocycles and twisted $3$-cocycles.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
  Marina A Nikiforou, University of South Florida
  Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
  (972-55-77)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A move on diagrams that generates S-equivalence of knots.
  Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada, Reno and University of California, Irvine
  Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University
  (972-57-190)
- 5:00 p.m.
  3-manifold invariants and periodicity of homology spheres.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana Stae University
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington
  (972-57-100)

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