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Conference in Low-Dimensional Topology - The KirbyFest June 22, 1998 - June 26, 1998

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Jun 22, 1998
Monday
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Contractible open n-manifolds (n>4) are determined by their Z-boundaries
Fredric Ancel
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Vassiliev invariants of knots and links: a survey
Joan Birman
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Setting the Stage: Surgery in the Sixties
Andrew Casson
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The Orbifold Theorem
Daryl Cooper
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in 4-space
Simon Donaldson
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  That marvelous torus
Robert Edwards
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Some Ideas of Kirby's: in, around, and outside of mathematics
Michael Freedman
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The stable cohomology of the mapping class group with arbitrary coefficients
Stavros Garoufalidis
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Emerging mathematical ideas in neurosurgery
Cole Giller
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Applications of Kirby Calculus
Bob Gompf
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The knot complement theorem
Cameron Gordon
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Foliated surfaces and algorithms for unknots
Michael Hirsch
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Noncommutative Geometry
Vaughan Jones
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Foliated Teichmuller theory
Curt McMullen
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Holomorphic bundles over elliptic curves and families of del Pezzo surfaces
John Morgan
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Non-isotopic Heegaard Splittings of nonmimimal genus
Yoav Moriah
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Problem Session
Rob Kirby
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The Compression Theorem
Colin Rourke
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
Danny Ruberman
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Kirby and the promised land of topological manifolds: memories and memorable arguments
Larry Siebenmann
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Some curious symplectic and non-symplectic 4-manifolds
Ron Stern
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Combinatorial topology and the continuum model of geometry
Dennis Sullivan
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The Geometry of the Seiberg-Witten Invariants
Cliff Taubes
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Remarks on an old friend of Rob's: R4's from then 'til now
Larry Taylor
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Filtering the knot concordance group by Whitney Towers
Peter Teichner
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Complexifying Diffeomorpism Groups of a Surface
Charles Thomas
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Are 3-manifolds transparent? Diamonds, glass and surgery
William P. Thurston