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, 8:25 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 810, Main Building
Organizers:
James Conant, Cornell University jconant@polygon.math.cornell.edu
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
Rob Schneiderman, NYU-Courant Institute schneid@cims.nyu.edu
- 8:25 a.m.
  Normal Surface Theory, SL(2,C)-Character Varieties and Quantum Invariants.
  Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (986-57-42)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Derived group of a link group: three applications.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, GWU
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, GWU
  (986-57-221)
- 10:05 a.m.
  The Kontsevich Integral and the multi-variable Alexander polynomial.
  Andrew J Kricker*, University of Toronto
  (986-57-118)
- 10:35 a.m.
  On relations between string topology and Conway skein theory.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (986-57-124)

Saturday April 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 810, Main Building
Organizers:
James Conant, Cornell University jconant@polygon.math.cornell.edu
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
Rob Schneiderman, NYU-Courant Institute schneid@cims.nyu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Ribbon concodance and higher order Arf invariants.
  Kent E Orr*, Indiana University Bloomington
  Tim D Cochran, Rice University
  (986-57-188)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Holomorphic disks and knot invariants.
  Peter Steven Ozsvath*, Columbia University
  Zoltan Szabo, Princeton University
  (986-57-186)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Geometric simple connectivity in high dimensions in connection with problems in low dimensional topology.
  V. Poenaru*, Universite' de Paris-Sud Centre d'Orsay
  (986-57-152)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Attempts to prove the surgery conjecture for 4-manifolds.
  Frank Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia
  (986-57-62)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:55 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 810, Main Building
Organizers:
James Conant, Cornell University jconant@polygon.math.cornell.edu
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
Rob Schneiderman, NYU-Courant Institute schneid@cims.nyu.edu
- 8:50 a.m.
  $A$-polynomial and Bloch invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, Columbia University
  (986-57-53)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Lie bialgebras of curves on surfaces and their computation.
  Moira Chas*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (986-57-165)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Remarks on combinatorial Yamabe flows.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
  (986-57-125)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 810, Main Building
Organizers:
James Conant, Cornell University jconant@polygon.math.cornell.edu
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
Rob Schneiderman, NYU-Courant Institute schneid@cims.nyu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Nocyclic Covers of Knot Complements.
  Nathan D Broaddus*, Columbia University
  (986-57-131)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Straight lines intersecting a knot in four points.
  Ryan Budney*, Rochester
  Jim Conant, Cornell
  Kevin Scannell, New York NY
  Dev Sinha, New York NY
  (986-57-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stabilization in the braid groups.
  Joan Birman*, Columbia University, Barnard College
  (986-57-132)

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