2:15 p.m. Finite type invariants of homology $3$-spheres. Jerome P. Levine*, Brandeis University
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University
(908-05-316)
2:45 p.m. Invariants of graphs. Simrat M. Ghuman*, Rice University
(908-57-398)
3:15 p.m. Milnor invariants of singular knots. Ted Stanford*, University of California, Berkeley
(908-57-766)
3:45 p.m. A $TQFT$ for wormhole cobordisms over the field of rational functions. Patrick M. Gilmer*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(908-57-274)
4:45 p.m. Quantum invariants of templates. Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
Michael C. Sullivan, Northwestern University
(908-57-220)
5:15 p.m. Equivariant slice knots in dimension $3$. Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada, Reno
(908-57-52)
5:45 p.m. Minimal energies of polygonal knots. Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
(908-57-219)
8:00 a.m. Stability of lower central series of compact $3$-manifold groups. Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
Kent Orr, Indiana University, Bloomington
(908-57-397)
8:30 a.m. Three manifold invariants and finite dimensional Hopf algebras. Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(908-57-80)
9:00 a.m. Multiple strong fusions of boundary links. Paul A. Bellis*, Rice University
(908-57-396)
9:30 a.m. Discussion
10:10 a.m. The Kauffman-Radford-Hennings invariant for a general quantum group. Stephen F. Sawin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(908-57-93)
10:40 a.m. Links, Bousfield-Kan completions and closures of groups. Tim D. Cochran, Rice University
Kent Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(908-57-668)
11:10 a.m. Link homotopy and the relative slice problem. Vjacheslav S. Krushkal*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(908-57-114)
11:40 a.m. Vassiliev invariants of two component links and the Casson-Walker invariant. Paul A. Kirk*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Charles Livingston, Indiana University, Bloomington
(908-57-264)
2:15 p.m. Counting intersections of curves in Heegaard surfaces. John P. Hempel*, Rice University
(908-57-429)
2:45 p.m. Free knots. William H. Kazez*, University of Georgia
David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
(908-57-266)
3:20 p.m. Knot-theoretical constructions of Stein domains in complex surfaces. Lee N. Rudolph*, Clark University
M. Boileau, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France
(908-32-472)
3:50 p.m. Representations of knot groups, equivariant knot signature, and the Casson invariant. Christopher M. Herald*, McMaster University
(908-57-317)