First Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat

(co-organized by Oliver Dasbach and Tim Cochran)
Spring 2006
LSU, Baton Rouge

Lockett Hall, Room 241

Program

Sat., 25 Mar.	Time	Speaker	Title
	9:15 am Lounge Math Department Lockett Hall 3rd Floor	M. Lee	Coffee and Dough-Knots
	10:10 am - 11:00 am	Tim Cochran (Rice)	Grope Filtrations of Homology Cobordism
	11:40 am - 12:30 pm	Gregor Masbaum (Paris VII)	Perturbative expansion of mapping class group representations in TQFT
	3:10 pm - 4:00 pm	Tara Brendle (LSU)	Heegaard splittings and the Johnson-Morita homomorphisms
	4:40 pm - 5:30 pm	Stefan Friedl (Rice)	Symplectic Products and Fibred Manifolds
	6:40 pm		PARTY
Sun., 26 Mar.	Time	Speaker	Title
	9:15 am Lounge Math Department Lockett Hall 3rd floor	M. Lee	Coffee and Dough-Knots
	10:10 am - 11:00 am	Neal Stoltzfus (LSU)	On the Bollobas-Riordan-Tutte polynomial of Dessins
	11:40 am - 12:30 pm	Abhijit Champanerkar (U South Alabama)	Around the A-polynomial