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Low Dimensional Topology - The KirbyFest Program schedule |
Monday June 22 | ||
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9:00 |
Welcome | |
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9:15 |
Andrew Casson |
Setting the Stage: Surgery in the Sixties |
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10:45 |
Cliff Taubes |
The Geometry of the Seiberg-Witten Invariants |
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1:00 |
Robert Edwards |
That marvelous torus |
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2:15–2:45 |
Daryl Cooper |
The Orbifold Theorem |
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4:00–4:30 |
Danny Ruberman |
Diffeomorphisms of 4–manifolds |
Tuesday June 23 | ||
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9:15 |
Joan Birman |
Vassiliev invariants of knots and links: a survey |
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10:45 |
Cameron Gordon |
Knots and Dehn surgery |
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1:00 |
Ron Stern |
Some curious symplectic and |
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2:15–2:45 |
Peter Teichner |
Filtering the knot concordance group by |
Wednesday June 24 | ||
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9:15 |
Vaughan Jones |
Noncommutative geometry |
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10:45 |
Larry Siebenmann |
Kirby and the promised land of topological |
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1:00 |
Michael Freedman |
Some ideas of Kirby's: in, around, and |
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2:20–2:50 |
Colin Rourke |
The Compression Theorem |
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4:00–4:30 |
Cole Giller |
Emerging mathematical ideas in neurosurgery |
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7:00 |
Banquet at His Lordships Restaurant, Berkeley Marina | |
Thursday June 25 | ||
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9:15 |
John Morgan |
Holomorphic bundles over elliptic curves and |
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10:45 |
Dennis Sullivan |
Combinatorial topology and the continuum |
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1:00 |
Curt McMullen |
Foliated Teichmuller theory |
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2:05–3:00 |
Problem session | |
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4:00–4:20 |
Michael Hirsch |
Foliated Surfaces and algorithms for unknots |
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4:30–5:00 |
Fredric Ancel |
Contractible open n–manifolds (n>4) |
Friday June 26 | ||
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9:15 |
Robert Gompf |
Applications of Kirby Calculus |
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10:45 |
Simon Donaldson |
Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in 4–space |
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1:00 |
William P Thurston |
Are 3–manifolds transparent? |
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2:10–2:30 |
Charles Thomas |
Complexifying diffeomorphism groups |
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2:40–3:00 |
Fredric Ancel |
Contractible open n–manifolds (n>4) |
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4:00–4:20 |
Stavros Garoufalidis |
The stable cohomology of the mapping class |
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4:30–4:50 |
Larry Taylor |
Remarks on an old friend of Rob's: |
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