8:30 a.m. New bounds for Betti numbers of semi-algebraic sets and algorithms for computing them. Saugata Basu*, Georgia Institute of Technology.
(973-54-1289)
9:00 a.m. Optimal geometry in topology. John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois
(973-53-1228)
9:30 a.m. Recognizing String Graphs in NP. Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University
Eric Sedgwick*, DePaul University
Daniel Stefankovic, University of Chicago
(973-68-1170)
10:00 a.m. On the Andrews-Curtis conjecture and Algorithms from Topology. Siddhartha Gadgil*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(973-20-868)
10:30 a.m. A special case of the weak hyperbolization conjecture. Murray J Elder*, Texas A&M University
Jonathon P McCammond, Texas A&M University
John Meier, Lafayette College
(973-57-1046)
1:00 p.m. The Complexity of Knot Genus. Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
Ian Agol, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
William P Thurston, University of California, Davis
(973-57-773)
1:30 p.m. New algorithms from normal surfaces theory. Ben Burton, Oklahoma State University
William Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
David Letscher, Oklahoma State University
J. Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
(973-57-1472)
2:00 p.m. Normal Surface Theory and Minimal Triangulations. Alexander C Barchechat*, UC Davis
(973-54-765)
2:30 p.m. Comparing Triangulations of $3$-Manifolds. David M Letscher*, Oklahoma State
(973-57-1132)
3:00 p.m. Tabulation of classical links - the state of the game. Morwen B Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
(973-57-1065)
3:30 p.m. Polynomial time complexity algorithm for computing coefficients of the Jones-Conway (Homflypt) and Kauffman polynomials of links. Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
(973-57-1068)
4:00 p.m. Constraints on Vassiliev invariants and their complexity. Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
(973-57-882)
4:30 p.m. Dehn filling on outside torus of 1-bridge knot exterior. Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
(973-57-1157)