AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Northeastern University, Boston, MA

October 7-8, 1995

Special Session: Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology

Organizers: Solomon Jekel and Alexandru Suciu


SCHEDULE OF TALKS

(All talks in Room 430, Dodge Hall)
Saturday, October 7
8:30 - 8:50 Jarolim Bures Invariant differential operators on AHS manifolds
9:00 - 9:20 Kyung Bai Lee Seifert manifolds with Gamma\G/K fiber
9:30 - 9:50 Richard Brown On the dynamics of mapping class group actions on moduli spaces
10:00-10:20 Michael Farber Homological algebra of Novikov-Shubin invariants and Morse inequalities
10:30-10:50 Richard Porter Integer cohomology rings of nilmanifolds and their Lie algebras
2:30 - 2:50 Jerome Levine Finite type invariants of homology 3-spheres
3:00 - 3:20 Charles Frohman Topological quantum field theory with corners
3:30 - 3:50 Christopher Herald Knot group representations, equivariant signature, and Casson's invariant
4:00 - 4:20 Dan Silver Knot invariants from symbolic dynamics
 
Sunday, October 8
8:30 - 8:50 Gabor Elek On the Cayley graph of amenable groups
9:00 - 9:20 Maxim Braverman Witten deformation of the analytic torsion and the spectral sequence of a filtration
9:30 - 9:50 Roberto Silvotti Gauss-Bonnet for open manifolds and critical points of meromorphic functions
10:00-10:20 William Goldman Ergodic theory on moduli spaces
10:30-10:50 Suhyoung Choi The Margulis lemma and the thick and thin decomposition for convex real projective surfaces
2:30 - 2:50 Ross Geoghegan Higher analogues of the Euler characteristic
3:00 - 3:20 Lee Rudolph An easily calculated lower bound for the slice genus of a knot
3:30 - 3:50 Kimberly Pearson K-theory and cohomology of 2-dimensional crystallographic groups
4:00 - 4:20 Stavros Garoufalidis Weight systems for finite type 3-manifold invariants
 


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