Topology and geometry of manifolds : 2001 Georgia International Topology Conference, May 21-June 2, 2001, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia / Gordana Matić, Clint McCrory, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Matic, Gordana, 1957-

McCrory, Clint.

Conference Name:

Georgia International Topology Conference (2001 : University of Georgia)

Series:

Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics 0082-0717 ; v. 71.

Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics, 0082-0717 ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manifolds (Mathematics)--Congresses.

Manifolds (Mathematics).

Low-dimensional topology--Congresses.

Low-dimensional topology.

Differential topology--Congresses.

Differential topology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, [2003]

Contents:

Rozansky-Witten theory / Justin Roberts 1

Some recent applications of the barycenter method in geometry / Christopher Connell, Benson Farb 19

The Lawrence-Krammer representation / Stephen Bigelow 51

Topological properties of properly embedded minimal surfaces in R[superscript 3] / William H. Meeks III 69

Introductory lectures on contact geometry / John B. Etnyre 81

On the coarse classification of tight contact structures / Vincent Colin, Emmanuel Giroux, Ko Honda 109

On the classification of tight contact structures / Paolo Ghiggini, Stephan Schonenberger 121

Four dimensions from two in symplectic topology / Margaret Symington 153

On the integer valued SU(3) Casson invariant / Hans U. Boden, Christopher M. Herald, Paul Kirk 209

On Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants / Paul M. N. Feehan, Thomas G. Leness 237

Quandle homology theory and cocycle knot invariants / J. Scott Carter, Masahico Saito 249

Boundary train tracks of laminar branched surfaces / Tao Li 269

Strongly irreducible surface automorphisms / Saul Schleimer 287

Problems in foliations and laminations of 3-manifolds / Danny Calegari 297

Problems in low dimensional contact topology / John B. Etnyre, Lenhard L. Ng 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821835076

OCLC:

53076208