AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 8, 2006 00:38:35

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday April 1, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low-Dimensional Manifolds, I
Room 445, Primera Casa
Organizers:
Thomas G. Leness, Florida International University lenesst@fiu.edu
Nikolai N. Saveliev, University of Miami, Coral Gables
- 8:00 a.m.
  Associative Submanifolds of a $G_2$ Manifold.
  Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
  Sema Salur, Northwestern University
  (1015-57-299)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Link homology theories from symplectic geometry.
  Ciprian Manolescu*, Columbia University
  (1015-57-67)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Towards a rigorous path integral derivation of 3-manifold quantum invariants.
  Atle Hahn*, Louisiana State University
  (1015-81-23)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Pontrjagin-Thom constructions in non-linear Fredholm theories.
  Mikio Furuta, Univeristy of Tokyo
  Tian-Jun Li*, University of Minnesota
  (1015-58-78)

Saturday April 1, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low-Dimensional Manifolds, II
Room 445, Primera Casa
Organizers:
Thomas G. Leness, Florida International University lenesst@fiu.edu
Nikolai N. Saveliev, University of Miami, Coral Gables
- 2:30 p.m.
  Links of complex surface singularities.
  Liviu I Nicolaescu*, University of Notre Dame
  (1015-57-46)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Heegaard Floer homology of a surface times a circle.
  Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada Reno
  Thomas Mark, Southeastern Louisiana University
  (1015-57-132)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Relative Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o invariants and gluing 4-manifolds with boundary.
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno
  Thomas E. Mark*, Southeastern Louisiana University
  (1015-57-20)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Exceptional Dehn fillings of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Carlo Petronio*, Universit� di Pisa
  (1015-57-33)

Sunday April 2, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low-Dimensional Manifolds, III
Room 445, Primera Casa
Organizers:
Thomas G. Leness, Florida International University lenesst@fiu.edu
Nikolai N. Saveliev, University of Miami, Coral Gables
- 8:00 a.m.
  Dirac operators on periodic-end manifolds and the Rohlin invariant.
  Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
  Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami
  (1015-58-297)
- 8:40 a.m.
  A $PSL(2,\Bbb C)$ Casson invariant.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
  (1015-57-85)
- 9:20 a.m.
  SU(3) flat moduli spaces of knot complements.
  Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1015-57-293)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Three-manifolds which do not bound negative-definite four-manifolds.
  Brendan Owens*, Louisiana State University
  Saso Strle, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  (1015-57-220)

Sunday April 2, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low-Dimensional Manifolds, IV
Room 445, Primera Casa
Organizers:
Thomas G. Leness, Florida International University lenesst@fiu.edu
Nikolai N. Saveliev, University of Miami, Coral Gables
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectic 4-manifolds with prescribed fundamental groups.
  Scott Baldridge*, Louisiana State University
  Paul Kirk, Indiana University
  (1015-57-121)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Extensions of Taubes's convergence theorem.
  Yi-Jen Lee*, Purdue
  (1015-57-282)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Taubes' Conjecture and Twisted Alexander Polynomials.
  Stefano Vidussi*, University of California, Riverside
  (1015-57-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions.
  Katrin Wehrheim*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1015-54-215)

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