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• There is now a Ride-Sharing Message Board available for those who are looking for others to share rental cars or airport shuttle rides with.
• We will meet Thursday evening in the Brick Street restaurant (36 E High St) starting around 7:00pm. See the custom maps below.
• Since there were no complaints we shipped the schedule below off to AMS, which means this is what will appear in their program.
• There will be computers and data projection systems in all rooms. Here again the basic cautions about computer presentations:
    => Have your talk backed-up on hard media (i.e. CD)
    => Consider printing your talk to transparencies as backup
    => If you use Apple laptops bring your own monitor cable adapters.
          We can deal only with standard VGA monitor cables.
• The Map of Locations below has now also some restaurant locations as well as additional hotels (not promoted by AMS). We will make a reservation in one of the restaurants on Thursday night for a first gathering.
• We (the organizers) will stay at the Marcum Inn starting Thursday evening in case you need to reach us. For emergencies, Thomas' cell phone is (614) 286-9718.

• AMS has a special rate from AVIS for car rentals for travel from the airports. The Discount Number is B159266.
• Try also Airport Shuttle Service at (513) 896-6605. It is $75 for 1-2 people and $50 per person for more than 2 people.
• AMS Information
• Map of Lecture Hall, Hotel & Restaurant Locations
• Cincinnati/N. KY Intl. Airport (CVG)
• Dayton Intl. Airport (DAY)
• Miami University Campus Maps

TALK SCHEDULE (final)

•   9:30   David Radford
  • On the Hennings Invariant of a Finite-Dimensional Factorizable Hopf Algebra.
• 10:00   Qi Chen
  • Some examples of integral TQFTs.
• 10:30   Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska
  • Turaev-Viro invariants and the Reidemeister torsion.
• 11:00   Pat Gilmer
  • Congruence and Similarity of 3-manifolds.

•   3:00   Carmen Caprau
  • An sl(2) tangle homology and seamed cobordisms
•   3:30   Scott Carter
  • Cohomology in a symmetric monoidal category that has products and coproducts.
•   4:00   Masahico Saito
  • Relations among algebraic cohomology theories and applications.
•   4:30   Jozef Przytycki
  • Homology of dihedral quandles.
•   5:00   Yongwu Rong
  • A homology theory via clock moves.

•   9:00   Sergei Lando
  • An algebro-geometric proof of Witten's conjecture.
•   9:30   Craig Jackson
  • Nilpotent Slices, Hilbert Schemes, and Symplectic Link Invariants.
• 10:00   Louis Kauffman
  • The Flat Bracket Invariant for Virtual Knots, Links and Strings.
• 10:30   Heather Dye
  • Virtual Homotopy.
• 11:00   John Armstrong
  • Functors extending the Kauffman bracket.

•   3:00   Alexander Shumakovitch
  • Long exact sequence for Khovanov homology corresponding to the Jones skein relation of oriented links.
•   3:30   Uwe Kaiser
  • On geometric Khovanov theory on surfaces.
•   4:00   Oliver Dasbach
  • Alternating sum formulae for the determinant of a link.
•   4:30   Michael Khoury
  • Polyak-Viro formulas for the coefficients of the Conway polynomial.