Second Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat

(co-organized by Oliver Dasbach, Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey)
Spring 2007
LSU, Baton Rouge

Lockett Hall, Room 237

Program

Sat., Feb. 3, 2007	Time	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
Sun., Feb. 4, 2007	Time	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 LTTRs:	First LTTR: March 25/26, 2006