AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Friday, April 15, 2005 00:25:30

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 9, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 111, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Mieczyslaw Krzysztof Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas mdab@utdallas.edu
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@math.ttu.edu
Jozef Henryk Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On The Frohman Kania-Bartoszynska ideal.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (1006-57-51)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integral bases for the $SU(2)$-TQFT-modules in genus one.
  Khaled Moham Qazaqzeh*, Baton Rouge/Louisiana
  (1006-57-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Applications of Vassiliev invariants to the classification of pseudo-Legendrian knots.
  Vladimir V. Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  (1006-57-193)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On $n$-punctured ball tangles.
  Jae-Wook Chung*, University of California, Riverside
  Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside
  (1006-57-175)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Higher Hochschild homology of a Heegaard splitting.
  Michael McLendon*, Washington College
  (1006-57-201)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Turaev-Viro invariant and the Reidemeister torsion.
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University/ National Science Foundation
  (1006-57-232)

Saturday April 9, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 111, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Mieczyslaw Krzysztof Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas mdab@utdallas.edu
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@math.ttu.edu
Jozef Henryk Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Tangles and Virtual Tangles.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Sofia Lambropoulou, National Technical University of Athens
  (1006-57-104)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-additive versions of the Hennings (KRH) invariant.
  Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa
  (1006-57-262)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Skein Theory and String Topology.
  Nikolaos E. Apostolakis, Boise State University
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1006-57-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Applications of quandle cocycle invariants to knots and graphs.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (1006-57-163)

Sunday April 10, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, III
Room 111, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Mieczyslaw Krzysztof Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas mdab@utdallas.edu
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@math.ttu.edu
Jozef Henryk Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Alexander polynomial and knot homologies.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  (1006-57-172)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Noncommutative A-polynomial of Torus Knots.
  Kristen Sellke*, The University of Iowa
  (1006-57-170)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Notes on the Kauffman bracket skein module of handlebodies.
  Fumikazu Nagasato*, Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (From April, 1st)
  (1006-51-146)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Spanning Trees and Khovanov Homology.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
  Ilya Kofman, Barnard College, Columbia University
  Oleg Viro, Uppsala University
  (1006-57-117)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On Kauffman's spanning tree expansion of the Alexander Polynomial.
  Oliver Dasbach*, LSU
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  (1006-57-256)

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