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Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference 2003
March 20-22, 2003
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX, USA

Organizers
Wayne Lewis, Razvan Gelca, Harold Bennett, Carl Seaquist

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The Casson Invariant Conjecture
by
Walter Neumann
Barnard College, Columbia University
Coauthors: Jonathan Wahl

The Casson Invariant Conjecture asserts that when a three-dimensional homology sphere \Sigma is the link of a complete intersection complex surface singularity, the Casson invariant of \Sigma is one-eighth the signature of the Milnor fiber. Part of the interest of this conjecture is the suggestion that the Milnor fibre is a natural (topological) coboundary for \Sigma. This talk will survey some recent progress on and extensions of this conjecture.

Date received: February 26, 2003

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