8:00 a.m. Multiple harmonic series and Kontsevich's invariant Michael E Hoffman*, U.S. Naval Academy
(930-16-29)
8:30 a.m. Structures and diagrammatics of four dimensional topological lattice field theories. J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
(930-57-295)
9:00 a.m. A topological approach to character varieties and their quantizations. Adam S. Sikora*, University of Maryland at Collage Park
(930-57-1154)
9:30 a.m. Multiplicative Invariants and the Andrews-Curtis Conjecture. John Rosson*, Portland State University
(930-57-928)
10:00 a.m. Lie Group Representations of Knot Complements. Brian S Mangum*, Barnard College, Columbia University
Patrick D Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
(930-57-967)
10:30 a.m. Cyclic Dehn Surgery and the A-Polynomial of a Knot. Patrick D Shanahan*, Loyola Marymount University
(930-57-45)
1:00 p.m. $SL_q(2,{\bf R})$ and 3-manifold invariants. Ruth Lawrence*, Univeristy of Michigan
(930-57-1228)
1:30 p.m. Milnor and finite type invariants of plat-closures of pure braids. Effie Kalfagianni, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
(930-57-1138)
2:00 p.m. Applications of the lantern identity. Stavros Garoufalidis*, Brandeis University
(930-57-270)
2:30 p.m. Finite Type and Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds. Thang T. Q. Le*, SUNY Buffalo
(930-57-640)
3:00 p.m. Virtual knot theory. Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(930-57-83)
3:30 p.m. Knot group symmetries and representation shifts. Daniel S. Silver*, Univ. of South Alabama
Susan G. Williams, Univ. of South Alabama
(930-57-944)
4:00 p.m. A presentation of the mapping class groups. Feng Luo*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(930-57-196)
4:30 p.m. Topological Quantum Field Theory and Strong Shift Equivalence. Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
(930-57-660)
5:00 p.m. Topological Quantum Field Theory and its applications. Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
(930-57-708)
5:30 p.m. The Embedding Space of Polygonal Knots. Jorge Alberto Calvo*, UCSB
(930-54-606)
1:00 p.m. A Structure Theorem for the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module . Walter F. LoFaro*, University of Iowa
(930-57-195)
1:30 p.m. An Integral Formula for the Turaev-Viro Invariant. Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
(930-57-364)
2:00 p.m. A theorem about surface groups in surgered manifolds. Anneke Bart*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(930-57-612)
2:30 p.m. Kauffman--Radford--Hennings invariants of 3-manifolds associated with the centralized quantum group $s\ell ^t_{q,z}(2)$. Keqin Liu*, University of British Columbia
(930-57-843)
3:00 p.m. Automorphisms of braid groups of surfaces. Nikolai V. Ivanov*, Michigan State University
(930-57-745)
3:30 p.m. Invariants of Embedded Unframed Topological Graphs. David N Yetter*, Kansas State University
(930-57-531)
4:00 p.m. Extending the Gassner representation from pure braids to tangles, and some rational functions that generate Milnor invariants. Theodore B Stanford*, US Naval Academy
(930-57-950)
4:30 p.m. A Type 2 Polynomial Invariant of Links Derived from the Casson-Walker Invariant. Jeff Johannes*, Indiana University
(930-57-1068)
5:00 p.m. On the star-delta transformation in network reliability and knot theory. Lorenzo Traldi*, Lafayette College
(930-57-272)
5:30 p.m. Floer homology of Brieskorn homology spheres and Jones polynomial. Nikolai N. Saveliev*, University of Michigan
(930-57-50)