AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:47

1998 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Louisville, KY, March 20-21, 1998
Meeting #931

• Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
  Room 161, Burhans Hall
  Organizers:
  Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
  Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Arnold-type invariants of curves on surfaces and homotopy groups of the space of curves.
    Vladimir V Tchernov*, Uppsala University, Sweden
    (931-57-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Infinite Coxeter groups are virtually indicable.
    D Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
    D D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
    A W Reid, UT Austin
    (931-57-13)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariants of Heegaard Splittings.
    Doug Bullock, Boise State University
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
    (931-57-84)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Almost Normal Surfaces with Boundary in 3-Manifolds .
    Michelle M Stocking*, University of Texas, Austin
    (931-57-40)
• Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
  Room 161, Burhans Hall
  Organizers:
  Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
  Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Alternating Graphs.
    Colin Adams*, Williams College
    (931-57-198)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A survey of symmetric knots.
    Morwen B Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
    (931-57-86)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Two-Generator Satellite Links.
    Steven A Bleiler, Portland State University
    Amelia C Jones*, Vassar College
    (931-57-67)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Crossing number of thick knots.
    Jonathan K Simon*, University of Iowa
    Gregory R Buck, St. Anselm College
    (931-57-17)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Pseudofree group actions on $S^2 x S^2$.
    Michael P McCooey*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (931-57-344)
• Saturday March 21, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
  Room 161, Burhans Hall
  Organizers:
  Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
  Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Torsion in the Kauffman bracket skein module of a 3-manifold and use of a homology group and hyperbolic structure in torsion detection.
    J\'ozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (931-57-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Examples of foliation cones.
    John Cantwell*, Saint Louis University
    Lawrence Conlon, Washington University
    (931-57-21)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Genuine laminations and group negative curvature.
    William H. Kazez*, University of Georgia
    David Gabai, California Insitute of Technology
    (931-57-10)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Small Seifert group actions on R .
    Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    (931-57-45)
• Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
  Room 161, Burhans Hall
  Organizers:
  Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
  Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Counting annuli and tori.
    Martin G Scharlemann, UCSB
    Jennifer C Schultens*, Emory University
    (931-57-16)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Annular and boundary reducing Dehn fillings.
    Cameron McA. Gordon*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Ying-Qing Wu, University of Iowa
    (931-57-82)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Extension of incompressible surfaces on the boundary of 3-manifolds.
    Michael Freedman, UCSD
    Hugh Howards, UCSD
    Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
    (931-57-81)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Heegaard diagrams and handlebody groups.
    Feng Luo*, Dept. of Math., Rutgers Univ.
    (931-57-73)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Proof of Arnold's Conjectures About Plane Curves With Double Points.
    Chenghui Luo*, Fraunhofer CRCG, Inc.
    (931-55-11)