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

• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)