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Conference on
 Primes and Knots
March 7-16, 2003
Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute           Johns Hopkins University
Department of Mathematics

Daily Schedule: Talks are one hour, starting times:   10:00, 11:15, 1:45, 3:00, 5:00

Fri 7    March:  
                                        Welcome party 4:30 - 7:00 P. M. in Krieger 211

Sat 8    March:    

              A. Sikora        Overview of topological class field theory
              N. Boston      Pro-p Galois groups and p-adic Galois representations
             
K. Murasugi  Classical knot invariants and elementary number theory    
              
M. Morishita  Number theory and three-dimensional topology
              K. Consani    
$\infty$-adic Arakelov theory

Sun  9  March:
             M. Kapranov Analogies between Legendre symbols, linking numbers, and resultants
             H. Murakami 
 A quantum introduction to knot theory..
             B. Mazur          Theme of p-adic variation, continued
             P. Deligne       Things we know , and things we'd like to know about multizeta values
            
K. Habiro        Cyclotomic completions of polynomial rings, and quantum invariants of  integral homology spheres
                          
Mon 10 March: 
 10:00-11:00            W. Goldman                   Sl(2,C)-character varieties of some elementary surfaces
 11:15-12:15             S. Kojima                        Dehn filling space of a certain hyperbolic
   1:30-2:30               J.Kania-Bartoszynska  Turaev-Viro invariants away from roots of unity             
   2:45-3:45               H. Murakami                  A quantum introduction to knot theory II: the hyperbolic volume conjecture
   4:30-5:30           
   T. Le                                Quantum invariants of integral homology 3-spheres
  
5:40-6:40              
Y.  Shimizu                      Seiberg-Witten integrable systems and periods of marked rational elliptic surfaces
Tue 11 March:
  10:00-11:00       C. Frohman       Reidemeister torsion, symplectic volume, and the Yang-Mills measure
  11:15-12:15       Y. Yokota          A-polynomial of hyperbolic knots
    1:45-2:45         A. Felshtyn      Dynamical zeta functions, Nielsen theory and Reidemeister torsion
    3:00-4:00         A. Kawauchi 
  Groups, lattice points, and rational numbers corresponding to closed orientable 3-manifolds
    5:00-6:00         M. Asaeda        Fusion rules for orbifold subfactors

                         Wine and cheese Reception in the Sherwood Room, Levering Hall 6:00 - 8:30 P. M.
 Wed 12 March:     
10:00-11:00          M. Dabkowski   Rational moves on links and Burnside groups    
 11:15-12:15          A. Katsuda       Closed geodesics and heat kernels on nilpotent coverings    
 12:30-1:30            K. Ohshika        Convergence theorem for function groups K. Ohshika     Convergence theorem for function groups           
Thu 13 March:

10:00-11:00             I. Volic               Finite type invariants and calculus of functors
 11:15-12:15            J. Prztycki          Ideal obstruction to embedding tangles into links
  1:45-2:45              M. Sakuma         Markoff triples, quasi-Fuchsian groups, and 2-bridge knot groups
  3:00-4:00              M. Yamagishi    An analogue of the Nielsen-Schreier formula for pro-p groups
  5:00-6:00              
S. Koyama         Multiple zeta-functions

Fri 14   March:  
 10:00-11:00            M. Kurihara       Iwasawa theory and values of zeta-functions
 11:15-12:15            S. Garoufalidis   A rational noncommutative form of the Jones ploynomical of a knot
   1:45-2:45              Y. Taguchi         On the finiteness of various Galois representation
   3:00-4:00              D. Bar-Natan      Grothendieck-Teichmueller and knots
   5:00-6:00              K. Fujiwara        
P-adic gauge theory in number theory
                             
                  Banquet to follow at the Hopkins Club at 7:00 PM
Sat 15  March:    D. Bar-Natan     Grothendieck-Teichmueller and knots
  10:00-11:00             H. Furusho        p-adic multiple zeta values
  11:15-12:15             D. Thurston      TBA
    1:45-2:45               T. Kohno           Iterated integrals on configuration spaces, loop space homology, and format flat connectionss
    3:00-4:00              
T. Terasoma      Bar construction for Mumford-Schottky curves
    5:00-6:00               D. Bar-Natan     Knots and the Grothendieck -  Teichmuller Group II
                         
Sun 16 March:      
  10:00 -11:00            M Hoffman        Multi-zeta values:  the view from Osaka   
  11:15-12:15             H. Tsunogai      Some new-type relations in the Grothendieck - Teichmuller group
  12:30-1:30               D. Bar-Natan     Knots and the Grothendieck -  Teichmuller Group II

              

                 *The speakers will talk in the order given on 8 and 9 March. Other Days

                                                Tea 4-5 in Krieger 211
            

 

                                                                                                                                                                                 updated 3/11/2003