AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, I
Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the Fukaya Categories of Surfaces.
  Mohammed Abouzaid*, University of Chicago
  (1019-57-135)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Spectral invariants in Lagrangian intersections Floer theory.
  Remi Leclercq*, University of Montreal
  (1019-55-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Floer homology and knot concordance order.
  Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada Reno
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada Reno
  (1019-57-82)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Low-dimensional symplectic field theory and holomorphic foliations.
  Chris Wendl*, MIT
  (1019-53-160)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the classification of Floer-type theories.
  N. Shirokova*, Stanford University
  (1019-57-139)

Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, II
Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On symplectic analog of Lusternik--Schnirelmann theory.
  Yuli B Rudyak*, University of Florida
  (1019-53-57)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Exploded Torus Fibrations.
  Brett D Parker*, MIT
  (1019-58-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Floer homotopy type of the cotangent bundle and string topology.
  Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
  (1019-57-123)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Moduli space transversality for knot complements.
  Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1019-57-218)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The SU(3) Casson invariant and spliced sums.
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  (1019-57-203)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, III
Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Khovanov homology and contact knot theory.
  Hao Wu*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1019-57-104)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Graded Poisson algebras on bordism groups of odd-dimensional garlands and minimizing the intersection of loops on a surface.
  Vladimir V. Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  (1019-57-13)
- 9:00 a.m.
  From Topological Quantum Field Theory to Geometry.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (1019-57-161)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Long exact sequence for the Khovanov homology corresponding to the Jones skein relation of oriented links.
  Alexander N Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1019-57-214)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

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