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1992 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 7-8, 1992
Meeting #877

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

Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry

  • Saturday November 7, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, I
    Room 163, Kaprielian Hall

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Canonical decompositions of cusped hyperbolic manifolds.
      Makoto Sakuma, Osaka University, Japan
      Jeff Weeks*, Geometry Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
      (877-57-31)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Some applications of the hyperbolic volume formula of Lobachevsky and Milnor.
      Igor Rivin*, Princeton University
      (877-57-49)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Surface bundle covers of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
      Alan Reid*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
      (877-57-07)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The volume of a hyperbolic 3-manifold of Betti number 2.
      Marc Culler*, University of Illinois, Chicago
      Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois, Chicago
      (877-57-93)

  • Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, II
    Room 163, Kaprielian Hall

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Singular hyperbolic structures and hyperbolic Dehn surgery.
      Craig Hodgson*, University of Melbourne, Australia
      (877-53-91)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Could we live in a small universe?
      Geoff Hayward*, University of British Columbia
      (877-57-117)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Hyperbolic metrics with concave boundary.
      J. Hass*, University of California, Davis
      (877-57-119)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Co-contractible Kleinian groups.
      Daryl Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
      (877-53-59)

  • Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, III
    Room 163, Kaprielian Hall

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Deformations of spherical structures on two-bridge knot complements.
      William D. Dunbar*, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
      (877-57-92)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Tubes in hyperbolic manifolds and eigenvalue estimates.
      Ara Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
      (877-58-09)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Topological rigidity and an extension of a theorem of Cannon and Thurston.
      Yair N. Minsky*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (877-53-77)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Deformations of singular hyperbolic structures.
      Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
      (877-53-78)

  • Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, IV
    Room 163, Kaprielian Hall

    • 2:00 p.m.
      Geometrization of toroidal 3-manifolds.
      A. Casson*, University of California, Berkeley
      (877-57-118)
    • 2:30 p.m.
      Tunnel number and volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
      Colin Adams*, Williams College
      (877-57-76)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Constructing representations of braid groups.
      D. D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
      J. A. Moody, Columbia University
      (877-57-45)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Seifert fiber spaces and quasi-symmetric groups.
      G. Mess*, University of California, Los Angeles
      (877-57-120)
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