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Conference Schedule
All talks held in room 113 of the TTU Chemistry Building Campus Map
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Friday Feb. 14, 2014 |
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5:00 - 5:40 PM |
Reception in the main lobby, Mathematics & Statistics Bldg, then walk to Chemistry 113 |
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5:45 - 6:00 PM |
Opening Welcome and Address by Dr. Kent Pearce, Chairman, TTU Mathematics & Statistics |
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6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities -- General Audience Talk: "Object recognition, symmetry detection, jigsaw puzzles, and melanomas" |
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Saturday Feb. 15, 2014 |
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8:30 AM |
Refreshments in Chemistry 113 |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology : "The Habiro ring and invariants of 3-manifolds" |
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10:00 - 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 - 11:30 AM |
Richard Schoen, Stanford University : "Trapped surfaces and MOTS in general relativity" |
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11:30 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch Break |
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1:30 - 2:30 PM |
Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft : "Quantum Topology and its applications" |
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2:30 - 3:00 PM |
Break |
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3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Liviu Nicolaescu, University of Notre Dame : "Random Morse functions on compact manifolds" |
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4:00 - 4:15 PM |
Break |
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4:15 - 5:15 PM |
Susan Tolman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "The cohomology of quotients of Hamiltonian loop group spaces" |
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6:00 - 8:30 PM |
Conference Banquet at the Cattle Baron Steak & Seafood Restaurant |
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Sunday Feb. 16, 2014 |
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8:30 AM |
Refreshments in Chemistry 113 |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Richard Hind, University of Notre Dame : "Symplectic embeddings and isotopies" |
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10:00 - 10:15 AM |
Coffee Break |
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10:15 - 11:15 AM |
Igor Zelenko, Texas A&M University : "Symplectic methods in local differential geometry of nonholonomic distributions" |
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11:15 - 11:30 AM |
Break |
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11:30 - 12:30 PM |
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota : "Moving Frames and their applications" |
