8:00 a.m. Deformation of homotopy into isotopy in oriented 3-manifolds. Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
(993-57-1179)
8:30 a.m. Non-universality of topological symmetry groups. Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
Ramin Naimi, Occidental College
James Pommersheim, Pomona College
Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
(993-57-956)
9:00 a.m. Mahler measure of Alexander polynomials and Lehmer's question. Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
(993-57-1284)
9:30 a.m. Uniform 1-Cochains and Genuine Laminations. Baris Coskunuzer*, Princeton University
(993-57-299)
10:00 a.m. Knot complements covered by great circle link complements. Genevieve Walsh*, University of Texas at Austin
(993-57-1204)
10:30 a.m. Essential surfaces in 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle. Liz Klodginski*, UC Davis
(993-57-1207)
1:00 p.m. Distance calculations in the curve complex. John Hempel*, Rice University
(993-57-1359)
1:30 p.m. Orderability of certain 3-manifold groups. Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
Rachel Dedwydd Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
John Shareshian, Washington University in St Louis
Melanie Stein, Trinity College
(993-57-1297)
2:00 p.m. Higher-Order Linking Forms for 3-Manifolds. Constance Leidy*, Rice University
(993-57-988)
2:30 p.m. Singular symplectic forms on 4-manifolds. Robion C. Kirby*, University of California, Berkeley
T. David Gay, University of Quebec at Montreal
(993-57-396)
3:00 p.m. On the Homotopy Classification of 2-Complexes. Jens Harlander, Western Kentucky University
Jacqueline A Jensen*, Sam Houston State University
(993-55-933)
3:30 p.m. Generalizations of quandle cocycle invariants and Alexander modules from quandle modules. Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
(993-57-851)
4:00 p.m. The topology of 4-manifolds which admit a symplectic form and a circle action. Scott J Baldridge*, Indiana University
(993-57-619)
4:30 p.m. On a characterization of nugatory crossings. Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
(993-57-1289)
5:00 p.m. A topological IHX relation in three and four dimensions. James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Rob Schneiderman, Courant Institute
Peter Teichner, UC San Diego
(993-57-204)
5:30 p.m. Finite Abelian Group Actions on Orientable $S^1$-Bundles Over Orientable Surfaces. Caroline Maher Boulis*, Florida State University
(993-55-841)
8:00 a.m. Filtrations of Classical Knots. Tim D Cochran*, Rice University
(993-57-1168)
8:30 a.m. New obstructions to doubly slicing knots. Taehee Kim*, Rice University
(993-57-1184)
9:00 a.m. Concordance of boundary links. Jerome P Levine*, Brandeis University
(993-57-975)
9:30 a.m. The Doubled-Delta Move on Ordered Links. Carol Gwosdz Gee*, Rice University
(993-57-1180)
10:00 a.m. The $H_3(PSL(2,C),Z)$ class and Chern-Simons invariant of a hyperbolic $3$-manifold. Walter D Neumann*, Barnard College, Columbia University
(993-57-911)
10:30 a.m. Spin Bordism Invariants of the Mapping Class Group. Aaron Heap*, Rice University
(993-55-707)
1:00 p.m. Knots and generalized Arf invariants. Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Tim D Cochran, Rice University
(993-57-1675)
1:30 p.m. Khovanov homology of links in $I$-bundles over surfaces. Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
Marta M. Asaeda, University of Iowa
Adam S. Sikora, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo and IAS
(993-57-895)
2:00 p.m. A splitting formula for spectral flow on closed $3$-manifolds. Benjamin Himpel*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(993-58-1199)
2:30 p.m. Perturbative and Integral Structures of TQFT's. Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
(993-57-1100)
3:30 p.m. Type one invariants for knotted graphs, and criteria for graph planarity. Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
(993-57-1242)
4:00 p.m. A classification of isometry groups of a Seifert fibered space $N$ which is double covered by a lens space $L$. Ryo Ohashi*, Saint Louis University
(993-57-467)
4:30 p.m. The Links-Gould invariant from the Kontsevich integral. Nathan C Geer*, University of Oregon
(993-54-953)
5:00 p.m. Energy minimization problems and other relations arising from electrodynamics on subdomains of $S^3$. R Jason Parsley*, University of Pennsylvania
(993-54-148)