AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 12, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Complex Singularities, I
Room 401, Main Building
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, NYU-Courant Institute cappell@cims.nyu.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University neumann@math.columbia.edu
Agnes Szilard, Barnard College, Columbia University szilard@math.columbia.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Calculations of the Casson-Curtis SL(2,C) invariant.
  Hans Boden*, McMaster University
  (986-57-209)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Donaldson invariants of mapping tori.
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  Nikolai Saveliev*, University of Miami
  (986-57-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Polynomial knots.
  Alan H Durfee*, Mt Holyoke College
  (986-57-169)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Real Singularities and Open-book Decompositions of the 3-Sphere.
  Anne Pichon*, Institut de Math�matiques de Luminy, Marseille, France
  Jos� Seade, Instituto de Matem\'aticas, Unidad Cuernavaca
  (986-14-168)

Saturday April 12, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Complex Singularities, II
Room 401, Main Building
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, NYU-Courant Institute cappell@cims.nyu.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University neumann@math.columbia.edu
Agnes Szilard, Barnard College, Columbia University szilard@math.columbia.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The link of $\{f(x,y)+z^n=0\}$ and Zariski's conjecture.
  R Mendris*, The Ohio State University
  A Nemethi, The Ohio State University
  (986-32-82)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Normal surface singularities and the Seiberg-Witten invariant.
  Andras Nemethi*, The Ohio State University
  (986-32-176)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Complete intersection singularities of splice type.
  Walter D Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
  Jonathan Wahl*, University of North Carolina
  (986-57-192)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Casson Invariant Conjecture.
  Walter D Neumann*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  Jonathan Wahl, University of North Carolina
  (986-57-191)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Rho invariants of Seifert fibered manifolds.
  Edward Y. Miller*, Brooklyn Polytechnic University
  (986-57-239)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Problem session

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Complex Singularities, III
Room 401, Main Building
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, NYU-Courant Institute cappell@cims.nyu.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University neumann@math.columbia.edu
Agnes Szilard, Barnard College, Columbia University szilard@math.columbia.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the embedded resolution of cyclic surface singularities.
  Agnes Szilard*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (986-14-214)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent progress in the study of some non-isolated singularities.
  Lee J. McEwan*, The Ohio State University
  (986-14-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Hodge spectrum and multiplier ideals.
  Nero Budur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (986-14-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stringy invariants for general singularities.
  Willem Veys*, University of Leuven
  (986-14-95)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Calculating Euler Characteristics of Vanishing Cycles.
  David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
  (986-32-66)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Complex Singularities, IV
Room 401, Main Building
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, NYU-Courant Institute cappell@cims.nyu.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University neumann@math.columbia.edu
Agnes Szilard, Barnard College, Columbia University szilard@math.columbia.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topological Invariants of Stratified Maps with Non-Witt Target.
  Markus Banagl*, University of Cincinnati
  (986-57-72)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Bifurcations in Gradient Systems with Symmetry.
  Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (986-57-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Intersection Alexander Polynomials.
  Greg Friedman*, Yale University
  (986-57-78)

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