Topology of Manifolds

July 06 - 31, 1998

Content

Overview

Advisory:

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Organizers:

Richard Randell

The University of Iowa

Program Description

Week	Lecturer	Topic
July 6-10	Abigail Thompson University of California, Davis	Normal surfaces and algorithmic recognition of knots and 3-manifolds
July 13-17	Martin Scharlemann University of California, Santa Barbara	Surfaces in 3-manifolds: From Heegaard splittings to the Thurston norm
July 20-24	Robin Forman Rice University	Finite-type invariants for knots
July 27-31	Xiao-Song Lin University of California, Riverside	Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Michael Axtell	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Andrey Babichev	Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences	University of Southern California
John Baxter		Iowa State University
John Burkardt		Iowa State University
Nguyen Cac	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Yuncherl Choi	Department of Mathematics	Seoul National University
Jefferson Davis	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Richard Evans	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Andrew Evenson	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Max Forester	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Robin Forman		Rice University
Max Gunzburger	Department of Mathematics	Florida State University
Le Ha	Department of Mathematics	Wayne State University
John Holt	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Dirk Horstmann		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
L. Steven Hou		Iowa State University
Bei Hu	Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics	University of Notre Dame
Traian Illiescu		University of Pittsburgh
Elmas Irmak	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
Eric Johnson	Department of Mathematics	The Pennsylvania State University
Lili Ju		Iowa State University
Barbara Keyfitz	Department of Mathematics	University of Houston
Se-Goo Kim	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Yun-Hui Kim	Department of Mathematics	Seoul National University
Ilya Kofman	Department of Mathematics	University of Maryland
Nicolai Krylov		Iowa State University
Yi Li	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Zhiwen Li		The University of Iowa
Xiao-Song Lin		University of California
Laura Mcelfresh	Department of Mathematics	University of Houston
Michael Mclendon	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Wayne Melnick	Department of Mathematics	University of Houston
Jocelyn Quaintance	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Richard Randell	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Cristian Rios		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Martin Scharlemann		University of California
James Serrin		Iowa State University
Robert Sinn	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Cincinnati
Hal Smith		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yasar Sozen	Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences	University of Southern California
Carl Stitz	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Kent State University
Feraydoun Taherkhani	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
Abigail Thompson	Department of Mathematics	University of California
Tom Treloar	Department of Mathematics	University of Maryland
Ashuwin Vaidya	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Lihe Wang		The University of Iowa
Hans Weinberger		Iowa State University
Julia Wilson	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin
Zhimin Zhang		Wayne State University