AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:45

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday November 2, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, I
Room 411, University Union Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  Geodesic separation points for Fuchsian groups and laminations in surfaces.
  Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
  (861-57-67)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric structures on branched covers over universal links.
  Kerry Jones*, University of Texas, Austin
  (861-57-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Links as critical sets.
  Masahico Saito*, University of Texas, Austin
  (861-57-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dehn functions of groups, extensions of two-complexes, and quasi-isometries.
  Stephen G. Brick*, University of Oklahoma
  (861-20-163)

Friday November 2, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, II
Room 411, University Union Building
- 1:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of free products.
  Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
  Andy Miller*, University of Oklahoma
  (861-20-68)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Skein modules of open contractible 3-manifolds.
  Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
  J\'ozef H. Przytycki, Institute for Advanced Study
  (861-57-202)

Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, III
Room 411, University Union Building
- 7:00 a.m.
  Links with trivial Alexander-Gassner matrices.
  Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
  (861-57-59)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Torsion and the Casson-Gordon invariant.
  Patrick M. Gilmer*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Charles Livingston, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (861-57-60)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Homotopically ribbon concordance of fibered knots.
  Katura Miyazaki*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
  (861-57-66)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Branched coverings of 3-manifolds and patterned surfaces.
  John Hempel*, Rice University
  (861-57-69)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Contractible open manifolds which are not covering spaces.
  David G. Wright*, Brigham Young University
  (861-57-71)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Examples of eventually end-irreducible 3-manifolds of nonfinite genus at infinity.
  Bobby Neal Winters*, Pittsburg State University
  (861-57-11)

Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 411, University Union Building
- 2:00 p.m.
  Progress on the homotopy implies isotopy conjecture of laminated 3-manifolds.
  Will Kazez*, University of Georgia
  Dave Gabai, California Institute of Technology
  (861-57-200)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Knots yielding lens spaces.
  John Berge*, University of Texas, Austin
  (861-57-199)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dehn surgery and spherical space forms.
  Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
  Craig Hodgson, Columbia University
  (861-57-62)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The calculus of curves immersed in surfaces.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (861-57-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Reidemeister and Markov theorems in 3-manifolds.
  Paul Sundheim*, University of Texas, Austin
  (861-57-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The cohopficity problem for 3-manifold groups.
  F. Gonz\'alez-Acu\~na, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  Wilbur Whitten*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (861-57-65)

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