AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:52

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

Saturday November 9, 1991, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Negatively Curved Groups, I
ROOM 1112, Girvetz Hall
- 2:15 p.m.
  Dehn filling hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  (870-57-28)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Non-negatively curved Dehn fillings.
  Steven Bleiler*, Portland State University
  Craig Hodgson, University of Melbourne, Australia
  (870-57-90)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Volumes of hyperbolic Haken manifolds.
  Marc Culler*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (870-51-65)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Restricted Gromov groups and amalgams.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Dortmund, Germany
  (870-20-20)
- 4:15 p.m.
  A covering invariant of graph manifolds.
  Shicheng Wang, Beijing University, People's Republic of China
  Ying-Qing Wu*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-57-73)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Higher order Arf invariants for surfaces embedded in R^3.
  Fred Hickling*, Santa Clara University
  (870-57-14)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Negatively Curved Groups, II
ROOM 1112, Girvetz Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Counting incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
  (870-57-58)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Local rigidity and Dehn surgery space.
  Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
  (870-53-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weak concentration points for Kleinian groups.
  Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
  (870-20-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Measured laminations for non-negatively curved groups.
  Lee D. Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
  Ulrich Oertel, Rutgers University, Newark
  (870-57-93)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Negatively Curved Groups, III
ROOM 1112, Girvetz Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Heegaard splittings of compact orientable product manifolds.
  Jennifer Schultens*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-57-34)
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Tait flyping conjecture.
  William Menasco, State University of New York, Buffalo
  Morwen Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (870-57-59)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Deforming hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Walter D. Neumann, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Alan W. Reid*, University of Aberdeen, Scotland and Ohio State University
  (870-57-51)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Length functions and outer space.
  John Smillie, Cornell University
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (870-20-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quasiisometries. and bicombings.
  Hsueh-Ling Huynh, University of California, Berkeley
  Wing Yew Poon*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-20-17)

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