AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 7, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology, I
Room 430, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Solomon M. Jekel, Northeastern University
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariant differential operators on $AHS$ manifolds.
  Jarolim Bures*, Charles University, Czech Republic
  (903-14-33)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Seifert manifolds with $\Gamma\backslash G/K$-fiber.
  Kyung Bai Lee*, University of Oklahoma
  Frank A. Raymond, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (903-05-82)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the dynamics of mapping class group actions on moduli spaces.
  Richard J. Brown*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (903-05-234)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Noncommutative differential forms and classical algebraic topology.
  Max Karoubi*, University of Paris VII, France
  (903-18-36)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Integer cohomology rings of nilmanifolds and their Lie algebras.
  Bohumil Cenkl, Northeastern University
  Richard Dawson Porter*, Northeastern University
  (903-05-232)

Saturday October 7, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology, II
Room 430, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Solomon M. Jekel, Northeastern University
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Finite type invariants of homology $3$-spheres.
  Jerome P. Levine*, Brandeis University
  Stavros Garoufalidis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-20-158)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topological quantum field theory with corners.
  Charles Frohman*, University of Iowa
  (903-57-120)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Representations of knot groups, equivariant knot signature, and the Casson invariant.
  Christopher M. Herald*, McMaster University
  (903-57-113)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Knot invariants from symbolic dynamics.
  Daniel S. Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan Gayle Williams, University of South Alabama
  (903-05-42)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology, III
Room 430, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Solomon M. Jekel, Northeastern University
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Cayley graph of amenable groups.
  Gabor Elek*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (903-05-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Witten deformation of the analytic torsion and the spectral sequence of a filtration.
  Maxim Braverman*, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  (903-58-48)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lie algebra cohomology of meromorphic functions and theta functions.
  Roberto Silvotti*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (903-05-233)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Ergodic theory on moduli spaces.
  William Mark Goldman*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (903-05-184)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Margulis lemma and the thick and thin decomposition for convex real projective surfaces.
  Suhyoung Choi*, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  (903-57-01)

Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology, IV
Room 430, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Solomon M. Jekel, Northeastern University
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Higher analogues of the Euler characteristic.
  Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  Andrew J. Nicas, McMaster University
  (903-57-148)
- 3:00 p.m.
  An easily calculated lower bound for the slice genus of a knot.
  Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
  (903-05-112)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $K$-theory and cohomology of two-dimensional crystallographic groups.
  Kimberly L. Pearson*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (903-20-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Weight systems for finite type $3$-manifold invariants.
  Stavros Garoufalidis*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (903-05-172)

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