AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Friday June 21, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
Room 381, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized Casson Invariants and Gauge Theory.
  Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (978-57-93)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cyclotomic Integer Expansion of the Fibonacci TQFT and Applications.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (978-57-74)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum Invariants away from roots of unity.
  Charles D Frohman*, University of Iowa
  Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (978-57-49)

Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
Room 381, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectic Lie algebras, operads and graphs.
  James R Conant*, Cornell University
  Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
  (978-17-35)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rational moves on links measured by Burnside type groups.
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, GWU
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (978-57-66)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Burnside group of a link as an obstructions to the Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture.
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski*, George Washington University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
  (978-57-23)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Twist sequences and finite quotients of knot groups.
  Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
  (978-57-125)

Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, III
Room 381, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the potential functions for the hyperbolic structures of a knot complement.
  Yoshiyuki Yokota*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  (978-57-55)
- 9:30 a.m.
  TQFT arising from operator algebras.
  Marta Asaeda*, Univ of Maryland
  (978-81-96)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Property P for some knots.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, LSU
  Tao Li, Oklahoma State University
  (978-57-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A curious curve.
  Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
  (978-57-62)

Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
Room 381, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cocycle knot invariants from dynamical cocycles of quandles and Yang-Baxter cocycles of ubiques.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (978-57-76)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A generalization of quandles and homology theory of set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equations.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida
  (978-57-77)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the completeness of the involutory Kuperberg invariant of 3-manifolds.
  Fernando J. O. Souza*, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
  (978-57-118)

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