AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

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

Saturday March 29, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory in Smooth and Symplectic Topology, I
Room 108, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Scott J. Baldridge, Louisiana State University sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu
Brendan E. Owens, Louisiana State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Knot Concordance and Heegaard Floer homology.
  J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Columbia University
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  Saso Strle, University of Ljubljana
  (1037-57-369)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Degeneracy loci of Dirac operators.
  Thomas G. Leness*, Florida International University
  (1037-58-62)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Comultiplication in Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology.
  John A Baldwin*, Columbia University
  (1037-57-259)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Knot Floer width and Turaev genus.
  Adam Lowrance*, Louisiana State University
  (1037-54-349)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory in Smooth and Symplectic Topology, II
Room 108, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Scott J. Baldridge, Louisiana State University sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu
Brendan E. Owens, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Grid diagrams and Legendrian links in lens spaces.
  Kenneth L. Baker*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  J. Elisenda Grigsby, Columbia University
  (1037-53-278)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Structure Theorem for the Gromov-Witten Invariants of K\"{a}hler Surfaces.
  Junho Lee*, University of Central Florida
  Thomas H Parker, Michigan State University
  (1037-58-188)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Obstruction Bundle Relating Gromov-Witten Invariants of Curves and K\"{a}hler Surfaces.
  Thomas H Parker*, Michigan State University
  Junho Lee, University of Central Florida
  (1037-58-187)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds.
  Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia
  (1037-57-180)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Smooth Surfaces with Non-simply-connected Complements.
  Hee Jung Kim*, Louisiana State University
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis Unversity
  (1037-57-313)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On Floer homology and knots admitting lens space surgeries.
  Matthew Hedden*, M.I.T
  (1037-58-377)

Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory in Smooth and Symplectic Topology, III
Room 108, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Scott J. Baldridge, Louisiana State University sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu
Brendan E. Owens, Louisiana State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  The slice-ribbon conjecture for 3-stranded pretzel knots.
  Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada, Reno
  Josh Greene, Princeton University
  (1037-57-303)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Seiberg--Witten invariants for homology $S^1\times S^3$.
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  Nikolai Saveliev*, University of Miami
  (1037-57-242)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Braids and open book decompositions.
  Elena Bogdan Pavelescu*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1037-57-343)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Heegaard Floer Homology, Contact Structures,and TQFT.
  Ko Honda, University of Southern California
  William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
  Gordana Mati\'c*, University of Georgia
  (1037-57-240)

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