
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:30
1996 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, April 19-21, 1996
Meeting #911
Associate secretaries: Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology
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Friday April 19, 1996, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
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2:15 p.m.
Average bending of convex hull boundaries.
Martin J. Bridgeman*, Loyola University
(911-58-255) -
2:45 p.m.
Knot groups, representations and symbolic dynamics.
Daniel S. Silver*, University of South Alabama
Susan Gayle Williams, University of South Alabama
(911-57-224) -
3:15 p.m.
Knot inversion and the isometry groups of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
Wilbur Whitten*, Lynchburg, Virginia
(911-57-36) -
3:45 p.m.
$4$-manifolds are quotients of $R^4$.
Donald D. Lawrence*, University of New Orleans
(911-57-95) -
4:15 p.m.
An extremal property of Rohklin's inequality for real algebraic curves.
Steve Paris*, Northeast Louisiana University
(911-55-76) -
4:45 p.m.
On the homology of branched cyclic covers of knots.
Wayne H. Stevens*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(911-57-220)
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2:15 p.m.
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Saturday April 20, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
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8:00 a.m.
Floer homology of ends of four-manifolds.
Zarko Bizaca*, University of Texas, Austin
Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
(911-57-91) -
8:30 a.m.
The spectral flow of the odd signature operator and higher Massey products.
Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
Eric P. Klassen*, Florida State University
(911-58-127) -
9:00 a.m.
Some remarks on complex surfaces and smooth $4$-manifolds.
Ronald J. Stern*, University of California, Irvine
(911-57-234) -
9:30 a.m.
Tight contact structures and Seiberg-Witten invariants.
Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
Paolo Lisca, Columbia University
(911-57-225) -
10:00 a.m.
Casson-Lin's invariant and Floer homology.
Weiping Li*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
(911-57-209) -
10:30 a.m.
An equivariant Casson invariant for $3$-manifold with cyclic group action.
Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
Edward Y. Miller, Polytechnic University
(911-57-73)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 20, 1996, 2:15 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
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2:15 p.m.
Symmetries of the Chern manifold.
Slawomir Kwasik*, Tulane University
Reinhard E. Schultz, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(911-57-266) -
2:45 p.m.
Lissajous knots, billiard knots and their symmetry.
Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
(911-57-78) -
3:15 p.m.
The asymptotic density of alternating links.
Morwen B. Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(911-57-105) -
3:45 p.m.
Braided chord diagrams.
Joan S. Birman, Columbia University
Rolland J. Trapp*, California State University, San Bernardino
(911-57-108) -
4:15 p.m.
Arrangements of complex hyperplanes and representations of braid groups.
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Alexandru I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
(911-20-227)
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2:15 p.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
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8:30 a.m.
Lower central series of finitely-presented $3$-manifold groups.
Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
Kent Orr, Indiana University, Bloomington
(911-57-101) -
9:00 a.m.
Genus two positive Heegaard diagrams.
John P. Hempel*, Rice University
(911-57-90) -
9:30 a.m.
Bounding the number of boundary components of an essential surface in a knot exterior.
John Edwin Luecke*, University of Texas, Austin
(911-57-207) -
10:00 a.m.
A combinatorial Cartan theorem.
Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Bruce S. Trace*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
(911-57-100) -
10:30 a.m.
Tangle analysis of DNA Int recombination.
De Witt L Sumners*, Florida State University
(911-57-106)
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8:30 a.m.