AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:40
2002 Central Section Meeting
Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002
Meeting #974
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three
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Friday March 1, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, I
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Virtual Knot Theory.
Louis Hirsch Kauffman*, Univ of Ill at Chicago
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3:30 p.m.
On knot adjacency.
Effie Kalfagianni*, Michigan State University
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4:00 p.m.
3-dimensional topology inspired by number theory.
Adam S. Sikora*, CRM, Montreal
(974-57-255) -
4:30 p.m.
A combinatorial description of the Lie bialgebra of curves on surfaces.
Moira Chas*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(974-57-240)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, II
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Presentations od Skein Algebras.
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, George Washington University
Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
(974-57-104) -
9:00 a.m.
The Weyl quantization and the quantum group quantization of the moduli space of flat $SU(2)$-connections on the torus are the same.
Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
(974-57-76) -
9:30 a.m.
The braid theoretical approach to skein modules of 3-manifolds.
Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
(974-57-101) -
10:00 a.m.
Hochschild homology of a Heegaard splitting.
Michael S McLendon*, University of Iowa
(974-57-245) -
10:30 a.m.
Alexander-Conway polynomial of links, spanning trees and Milnor invariants.
Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
(974-57-160) -
11:00 a.m.
Skein and String Homology.
Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
(974-57-113)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, III
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A sum formula for the Casson invariant via configuration spaces.
Christine Lescop*, Institut Fourier, CNRS, Grenoble, France
(974-57-238) -
3:30 p.m.
Integrality for TQFTs.
Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
(974-57-132) -
4:00 p.m.
Finite length TQFT, symplectic invariant theory and the Casson invaraint.
Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
(974-57-178) -
4:30 p.m.
Combinatorial Construct of Modular Functors.
Zhenghan Wang*, Indiana University
(974-57-102)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, IV
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
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10:00 a.m.
On the structure of Ohtsuki series of 3-manifolds.
Ruth Lawrence*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(974-57-31) -
10:30 a.m.
The Jones polynomial and Temperley-Lieb representations of braid groups.
Ilya S. Kofman*, Columbia University
(974-57-198) -
11:00 a.m.
Approximating knot invariants by Vassiliev invariants.
Ilya Kofman, Columbia University
Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
(974-57-232) -
11:30 a.m.
Cyclotomic expansions of quantum invariants of 3-manifolds.
Thang T Le*, SUNY Buffalo
(974-57-141) -
12:00 p.m.
Some remarks on Property P.
Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
Tao Li, Oklahoma State University
(974-57-97) -
12:30 p.m.
Hirasawa's Seifert surfaces for A'Campo's divide links.
Sergei V Chmutov*, The Ohio State University at Mansfield
(974-57-173)
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10:00 a.m.