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

(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 Bollobás-Riordan-Tutte polynomial
of Dessins

11:40 am - 12:30 pm

Abhijit Champanerkar
(U South Alabama)

Around the A-polynomial

 

Contact: Oliver Dasbach