Cascade Topology Seminar
All talks are in Business building, room 207.
Click on the title to see the abstract.

Saturday, May 19:

10:00-10:30 Coffee and snacks; Math Geology Building, room 226.
10:30-11:30 Justin Roberts, University of California, San Diego: Rozansky-Witten theory.
Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Joan Birman, Barnard College, Columbia University: Knots and contact structures on $S^3$".
3:15-4-15 Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon, Eugene: Alexander Polynomial, Milnor numbers, and matrix-tree theorems.
6:30 Party (dinner), Joanna's house
RSVP kania@math.boisestate.edu

Sunday, May 20:

9:00-9:30 Coffee, tea etc.; Math Geology Building, room 226.
9:30-10:30 Rob Kirby, University of California, Berkeley: $\tau_4$, the Brown invariant, and #P..
10:45-11:45 Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno: An integer valued SU(3) Casson invariant for homology 3-spheres.