AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:50

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Friday June 14, 1991, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Low Dimensional Topology, I
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  Reconstruction of manifolds from their spines.
  Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia
  David Gillman, University of British Columbia
  (866-57-58)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fixed subgroups of free group automorphisms.
  Xingguo Zhang*, Michigan State University
  (866-20-47)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Groups satisfying the restricted Gromov property.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Dortmund, Federal Republic of Germany
  (866-20-53)

Friday June 14, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Low Dimensional Topology, II
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Distinguishing presentations of metacyclic fundamental groups of 3-manifolds.
  F. Rudolf Beyl*, Portland State University
  M. Paul Latiolais, Portland State University
  (866-57-55)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Degree one maps between three-manifolds.
  Yongwu Rong*, Michigan State University
  (866-57-15)
- 3:00 p.m.
  An embedding for the second homotopy group of a subcomplex of a finite contractible two-complex.
  William A. Bogley*, Oregon State University
  (866-20-52)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Groups and topographs.
  S. Kalajdzievski*, University of Manitoba
  (866-20-45)

Saturday June 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Low Dimensional Topology, III
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Fixed point free actions on homology 3-spheres.
  Erhard Luft, University of British Columbia
  Denis Sjerve*, University of British Columbia
  (866-57-57)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Non-homotopy equivalent 2-complexes with isomorphic pi_1 and pi_2.
  Nancy Waller*, Portland State University
  M. Paul Latiolais, Portland State University
  (866-57-56)
- 9:00 a.m.
  R-trees and partial rotations.
  Frank S. Rimlinger*, Fairfield University
  (866-20-02)
- 9:30 a.m.
  3-Manifolds whose universal covers are 1-connected at infinity, and group-theoretic ideas.
  John R. Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
  (866-20-44)

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