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1995 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Boston, MA, October 7-8, 1995
Meeting #903

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds

  • Saturday October 7, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds, I
    Room 342, Student Center
    Organizers:
    William Dart Dunbar, Jr., Simon's Rock of Bard College
    Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
    Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Flat $3$-manifolds as boundaries of hyperbolic $4$-manifolds.
      Barbara E. Nimershiem*, Franklin & Marshall College
      (903-51-244)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Hyperbolic $3$-manifolds with no self-intersecting closed geodesics.
      Ara S. Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
      Scott A. Wolpert, University of Oklahoma
      (903-51-219)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Representations of two-bridge knot groups on two-bridge knot groups sending meridian to meridian and longitude to chosen odd power of longitude.
      Robert F. Riley*, State University of New York, Binghamton
      Tomotada Ohtsuki, University of Tokyo, Japan
      (903-57-243)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      $3$-Manifolds with embedded least area laminations of Euler characteristic zero.
      Lee D. Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
      Ulrich Oertel, Rutgers University, Newark
      (903-57-90)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Groups acting on real trees.
      Mark E. Feighn*, Rutgers University, Newark
      (903-55-165)

  • Saturday October 7, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds, II
    Room 342, Student Center
    Organizers:
    Wendy J. Dunbar,
    Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
    Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Three-dimensional hyperbolic convex cores.
      Francis Bonahon*, University of Southern California
      (903-51-04)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Punctured tori, continued fractions and the ending lamination conjecture.
      Yair N. Minsky*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
      (903-30-199)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Bending of convex core boundaries.
      Martin Jude Bridgeman*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
      (903-55-71)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Hyperbolic Dehn surgery and algebraic and geometric convergence for Kleinian groups.
      Timothy D. Comar*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (903-57-79)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      The computational complexity of $PSL(2,C)$ discreteness criteria.
      Jane P. Gilman*, Rutgers University, Newark
      (903-57-103)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      SnapPea.
      Jeffrey R. Weeks*, Canton, New York
      (903-57-123)

  • Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds, III
    Room 342, Student Center
    Organizers:
    William Dart Dunbar, Jr., Simon's Rock of Bard College
    Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
    Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Exact arithmetic of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds in SnapPea.
      Oliver A. Goodman*, University of Bielefeld, Germany
      (903-57-78)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Spectral geometry of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
      Patrick J. Callahan*, University of Texas, Austin
      (903-57-205)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Solid tubes around shortest geodesics in hyperbolic $3$-manifolds and applications.
      Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
      David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
      Nathaniel John Thurston, Reed College
      (903-57-198)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Vol $3$.
      David Gabai*, California Institute of Technology
      Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
      Nathaniel John Thurston, University of California, Berkeley
      (903-57-37)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The solid tubes program for hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
      Nathaniel John Thurston*, University of California, Berkeley
      David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
      Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
      (903-55-239)

  • Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds, IV
    Room 342, Student Center
    Organizers:
    William Dart Dunbar, Jr., Simon's Rock of Bard College
    Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
    Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Volumes of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds with Betti number $2$.
      Marc E. Culler*, University of Illinois, Chicago
      Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois, Chicago
      (903-55-230)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      An analytic function defined on the hyperbolic Dehn-surgery space.
      Mingqing Ouyang*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (903-57-179)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Minimal index torsion-free subgroups of Kleinian groups.
      Kerry N. Jones*, Ball State University
      Alan W. Reid, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
      (903-57-102)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Simple quotients of hyperbolic $3$-manifold groups.
      David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara
      Alan W. Reid*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
      (903-57-34)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Unknotting tunnels in two-bridge knot and link complements.
      Colin C. Adams*, Williams College
      Alan W. Reid, University of Cambridge, England
      (903-57-22)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      An algebraic annulus theorem.
      Peter Scott*, University of Michigan
      Gadde A. Swarup, University of Melbourne, Australia
      (903-57-245)
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