Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:01:42

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Antonio, TX, January 12-15, 2006
Meeting #1014

• Saturday January 14, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, I
  Organizers:
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
  Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Classical and quantum 3-manifold invariants.
    Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1014-57-1151)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On integrality of quantum invariants of rational homology 3-spheres.
    Thang T. Q. Le*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1014-57-1021)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Holonomic relations between quantum invariants.
    Adam S. Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
    (1014-57-855)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotics of the quantum SU(2)-invariants for surgeries on the figure 8 knot.
    Soren K Hansen*, Kansas State University
    (1014-57-511)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Kauffman Bracket Skein Module of Torus Knots.
    Kristen Sellke*, The University of Iowa
    (1014-57-691)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Triad Spaces in the Kauffman Skein Theory.
    Jianyuan Kathy Zhong*, California State University Sacramento
    Bin Lu, California State University Sacramento
    (1014-57-482)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finding the basis of the Hilbert space of a certain quantum system.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    (1014-81-718)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Integral Bases for Certain TQFT-Modules of the Torus.
    Khaled M Qazaqzeh*, Louisiana State University
    (1014-57-608)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Positive Root Posets of Coxeter groups and Special bases for the associated Temperley Lieb algebras (Preliminary Report).
    Neal W. Stoltzfus*, Louisiana State University
    (1014-57-710)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Reducibility of Quantum-SU(n) Representations of Mapping Class Groups.
    Qi Chen, The Ohio State University
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    (1014-57-1095)
• Sunday January 15, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, II
  Organizers:
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
  Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Long Virtual Strings.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1014-57-425)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Patterns in the colored Jones polynomials.
    Oliver Dasbach*, LSU
    Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
    (1014-57-1379)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Confluence of Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology.
    Jozef Henryk Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1014-57-800)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    BN-modules for Seifert fibred spaces.
    Marta Asaeda*, UC Riverside
    (1014-57-1599)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Alexander type multi-variable link invariant arising from $sl(2\|1)$.
    Nathan Geer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1014-57-769)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fingerloop braids and system of Yang-Baxter type equations.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
    (1014-57-491)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized Link Homotopy and Milnor's Isotopy Invariants.
    Thomas Fleming*, University of California, San Diego
    Akira Yasuhara, Tokyo Gakugei University
    (1014-57-721)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weight systems for Milnor invariants.
    Blake Mellor*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1014-57-192)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On several types of universal invariants of framed links and 3-manifolds derived from quantum groups.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, the Ohio State University
    (1014-55-424)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Strong 3-algebras and a 2-group associated to manifolds.
    Mihai D Staic*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1014-57-337)