Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology

Special Session, AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting

Saturday, October 7
8:30– 8:50	Jarolim Bureš	Invariant differential operators on AHS manifolds
9:00– 9:20	Kyung Bai Lee	Seifert manifolds with Γ\G/K fiber
9:30– 9:50	Richard Brown	On the dynamics of mapping class group actions on moduli spaces
10:00– 10:20	Michael Farber	Homological algebra of Novikov-Shubin invariants and Morse inequalities
10:30– 10:50	Richard Porter	Integer cohomology rings of nilmanifolds and their Lie algebras
2:30– 2:50	Jerome Levine	Finite type invariants of homology 3-spheres
3:00– 3:20	Charles Frohman	Topological quantum field theory with corners
3:30– 3:50	Christopher Herald	Knot group representations, equivariant signature, and Casson’s invariant
4:00– 4:20	Dan Silver	Knot invariants from symbolic dynamics

Sunday, October 8
8:30– 8:50	Gabor Elek	On the Cayley graph of amenable groups
9:00– 9:20	Maxim Braverman	Witten deformation of the analytic torsion and the spectral sequence of a filtration
9:30– 9:50	Roberto Silvotti	Gauss-Bonnet for open manifolds and critical points of meromorphic functions
10:00– 10:20	William Goldman	Ergodic theory on moduli spaces
10:30– 10:50	Suhyoung Choi	The Margulis lemma and the thick and thin decomposition for convex real projective surfaces
2:30– 2:50	Ross Geoghegan	Higher analogues of the Euler characteristic
3:00– 3:20	Lee Rudolph	An easily calculated lower bound for the slice genus of a knot
3:30– 3:50	Kimberly Pearson	K-theory and cohomology of 2-dimensional crystallographic groups
4:00– 4:20	Stavros Garoufalidis	Weight systems for finite type 3-manifold invariants