Joint India-AMS Mathematics Meeting

17-20 December 2003, Bangalore

Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Topology

Organizers:

Parameswaran Sankaran                           Peter Shalen
Institute of Mathematical Sciences              University of Illinois 
Chennai                                         Chicago

List of Speakers and titles of talks:

  • Stanley Chang, A new invariant and the surgery exact sequnce.

  • Siddhartha Gadgil, On topological spherical space forms.

  • Satya Deo, Branched coverings, labelled coverings and transitive permutation groups.

  • Nikolai Krylov, On relative mapping class groups and manifolds with simple open book decompositions.

  • Goutam Mukherjee, Deformation theory of dialgebras.

  • S.K.Roushon, On groups with stabilized derived series.

  • Saul Schleimer, Heegaard splittings, the curve complex and hyperbolic geometry.

  • Peter Shalen Knots with only two strict essential surfaces.

  • Anant R. Shastri Topology of matrix varieties.