Second Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat (LTTR) 2007
(co-organized by Oliver Dasbach, Tim
Cochran and Shelly Harvey)
Spring 2007
LSU, Baton Rouge
Lockett Hall, Room 237
| Time on Sat., Feb. 3, 2007 | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 am Lounge Math Department Lockett Hall 3rd Floor | Coffee | |
| 10:00 am – 10:50 am | Shelly Harvey (Rice University) | The n-solvable filtration of the knot and (string) link concordance groups. |
| 11:00 am – 11:50 pm | Brendan Owens (LSU) | Gordian distance from slice knots |
| 3:00 pm – 3:50 pm | Dan Silver (University of South Alabama) | Twisted homology and algebraic dynamics |
| 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm | Scott Baldridge (LSU) | An exotic CP^2#3CP^2b and other examples of symplectic 4-manifolds with small Euler characteristics. |
| 7:00 pm | PARTY | |
| Time on Sun., Feb. 4, 2007 | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00 am Lounge Math Department Lockett Hall 3rd floor | Coffee | |
| 10:30 am – 11:20 am | Dan Cohen (LSU) | Motion planning in tori |
| 11:40 am – 12:30 pm | Keiko Kawamuro (Rice University) | 3-braids and the algebraic crossing number |
Previous LTTR:
First LTTR: March 25–26, 2006
Contact: Oliver Dasbach