
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
Associate secretaries: Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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2:45 p.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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.
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4:45 p.m.
Proof of Arnold's Conjectures About Plane Curves With Double Points.
Chenghui Luo*, Fraunhofer CRCG, Inc.
(931-55-11)
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2:45 p.m.