AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 27, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Pictorial Methods in Low Dimensional Topology, I
Room 120, Ackert Hall
Organizers:
David R. Auckly, University of California Berkeley dav@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Totally Linked Positive Braids Realize the Braid Index.
  Charles I Delman*, Eastern Illinois University
  Joseph Nolan, Eastern Illinois University
  (932-57-192)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Computing the Casson-Walker-Lescop invariant and an associated polynomial invariant of links.
  Jeff Johannes*, Indiana University
  (932-57-75)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lefschetz fibrations and 3-fold branched covering spaces.
  Terry Fuller*, University of California, Irvine
  (932-57-61)

Friday March 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Pictorial Methods in Low Dimensional Topology, II
Room 120, Ackert Hall
Organizers:
David R. Auckly, University of California Berkeley dav@math.berkeley.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Dehn surgery with non-degenerate boundary slope rows.
  Xingru Zhang*, Oklahoma State University
  (932-57-118)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Simple manifolds and Dehn fillings.
  Cameron McA Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
  Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
  (932-57-105)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Counting genus and tunnel number .
  Martin G Scharlemann, UCSB
  Jennifer C Schultens*, EMory University
  (932-57-23)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Pictorial Methods in Low Dimensional Topology, III
Room 120, Ackert Hall
Organizers:
David R. Auckly, University of California Berkeley dav@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized Suspension Laminations.
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University, St Louis
  (932-57-193)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Canonical genus, free genus, and volume.
  Mark Brittenham*, University of North Texas
  (932-57-141)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tight Contact Structures on Lens Spaces.
  John B Etnyre*, Stanford University
  (932-57-45)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Pictorial Methods in Low Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 120, Ackert Hall
Organizers:
David R. Auckly, University of California Berkeley dav@math.berkeley.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The SU(3) Casson invariant via gauge theory I.
  Hans U Boden*, Ohio State
  Christopher M Herald, swarthmore
  (932-57-221)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The SU(3) Casson Invariant via Gauge Theory.
  Hans U Boden, Ohio State University Mansfield
  Christopher M Herald*, Swarthmore College
  (932-57-218)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hurwitz Spaces and Braid Group Representations.
  Eric P Klassen*, Florida State University
  Yaacov Kopeliovich, Florida State University
  (932-30-205)

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