Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:14

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Monday January 8, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Floer Homology, I
  Organizers:
  Scott J. Baldridge, Louisiana State University
  Ronald A. Fintushel, Michigan State University
  Thomas E. Mark, Southeastern Louisiana University
  Brendan E. Owens, Louisiana State University owens@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Singular Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants.
    Joshua R. Davis*, Duke University
    (1023-53-1332)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Construction of new symplectic cohomolgy $S^{2}\times S^{2}$.
    Anar Akhmedov*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1023-57-943)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Torsion in Heegaard Floer homology.
    Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada Reno
    Thomas Mark, University of Virginia
    (1023-57-1205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A combinatorial description to some Heegaard Floer homologies.
    Jiajun Wang*, UC Berkeley \& Columbia Univ
    (1023-51-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knot Floer homology detects fibred knots.
    Yi Ni*, Princeton University
    (1023-57-425)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The SU(3) Casson invariant and spliced sums.
    Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
    Benjamin Himpel, University of Bonn
    (1023-57-1249)
• Monday January 8, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Floer Homology, II
  Organizers:
  Scott J. Baldridge, Louisiana State University
  Ronald A. Fintushel, Michigan State University
  Thomas E. Mark, Southeastern Louisiana University
  Brendan E. Owens, Louisiana State University owens@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Compactness for folded holomorphic maps.
    Jens von Bergmann*, University of Notre Dame
    (1023-58-1593)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Computations of Floer Homology for certain Lagrangian Tori in closed $4$-manifolds.
    Adam C Knapp*, Michigan State University
    (1023-53-1691)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On knot Floer homology.
    Peter S Ozsvath*, Columbia University
    (1023-57-1129)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topological triviality of smoothly knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds.
    Hee Jung Kim*, McMaster University
    Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
    (1023-57-636)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Open Book Decompositions of Torus Bundles over $S^1$.
    Jeremy Van Horn-Morris*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1023-54-1555)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Thurston-Bennequin bounds for knots in more general contact manifolds.
    Matthew E Hedden*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1023-51-558)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Heegaard Floer homology and Periodic Knots.
    Sridhar Rajagopalan*, Brandeis University
    (1023-55-1509)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generalizations of symplectic structures and Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds.
    R Inanc Baykur*, Michigan State University
    (1023-53-341)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Floer homology and gluing three-manifolds along torus boundary.
    E Eftekhary*, Harvard University
    (1023-55-1538)