First Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat (LTTR) 2006

(co-organized by Oliver Dasbach and Tim Cochran)
Spring 2006
LSU, Baton Rouge
Lockett Hall, Room 241

Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat (LTTR) 2006 Program
Time on
Sat., 25 Mar.
SpeakerTitle
9:15 am
Lounge
Math Department
Lockett Hall
3rd Floor
M. LeeCoffee and Dough-Knots
10:10 am – 11:00 amTim Cochran
(Rice)
Grope Filtrations of Homology Cobordism
11:40 am – 12:30 pmGregor Masbaum
(Paris VII)
Perturbative expansion of mapping class group representations in TQFT
3:10 pm – 4:00 pmTara Brendle
(LSU)
Heegaard splittings and the Johnson-Morita homomorphisms
4:40 pm – 5:30 pmStefan Friedl
(Rice)
Symplectic Products and Fibred Manifolds
6:40 pmPARTY
Time on
Sun., 26 Mar.
SpeakerTitle
9:15 am
Lounge
Math Department
Lockett Hall
3rd floor
M. LeeCoffee and Dough-Knots
10:10 am – 11:00 amNeal Stoltzfus
(LSU)
On the Bollobás-Riordan-Tutte polynomial of Dessins
11:40 am – 12:30 pmAbhijit Champanerkar
(U South Alabama)
Around the A-polynomial

Contact: Oliver Dasbach