AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:57

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 9:30 a.m.
  Real representations of knot groups and Hecke algebras.
  D. D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  A. W. Reid, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
  (874-57-37)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Temperley-Lieb algebra and the Turaev-Viro invariant.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (874-57-109)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants and the semiclassical approximation.
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (874-57-49)

Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 2:45 p.m.
  Quantum group constructions at the classical level.
  Alan Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley
  Ping Xu*, University of Pennsylvania
  (874-58-68)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Quantum representations of modular groups via ideal triangulations.
  Nikolai V. Ivanov*, Duke University
  Vladimir G. Turaev, University of Stasbourg, France
  (874-57-59)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Invariants of torus knots derived from quantum groups.
  Marc Rosso*, University of California, Berkeley
  Vaughan Jones, University of California, Berkeley
  (874-16-124)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Invariant theory and a Casson-style count of SL(2,C)-representations of fundamental groups of rational homology spheres.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, Princeton University
  (874-57-130)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, III
Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 8:30 a.m.
  Another way to calculate the Conway polynomial.
  Fred Hickling*, Santa Clara University
  (874-57-62)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Different 3-manifolds with the same invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev.
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (874-57-101)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Normal surface equations for branched covers.
  John Hempel*, Rice University
  (874-57-131)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Torsion in skein modules of links in 3-manifolds.
  J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, University of California, Riverside
  (874-57-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Torsion class and universal constraint of Donaldson invariants for odd manifolds.
  Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
  Tom Mrowka, California Institute of Technology
  Yongbin Ruan, Michigan State University
  (874-57-132)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
- 2:45 p.m.
  A Seifert algorithm for knotted oriented surfaces.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Masahiko Saito, University of Texas, Austin
  (874-57-17)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Reidemeister moves for surface isotopies and their interpretation as moves to movies.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Masahiko Saito*, University of Texas, Austin
  (874-57-46)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Triality in braid theory.
  Michael Khovanov*, Yale University
  (874-57-137)

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