AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Saturday April 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds, I
Room 1, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Dmitry Fuchs, University of California, Davis fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis hass@math.ucdavis.edu
Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis naimi@math.ucdavis.edu
William Thurston, University of California, Davis wpt@math.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Genuine laminations and group negative curvature.
  David Gabai, Caltech
  William H Kazez*, University of Georgia
  (934-57-97)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Foliations with good geometry.
  Sergio R Fenley*, Washington University
  (934-57-72)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Perturbing Finite Depth Foliations.
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
  (934-57-111)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The orbifold theorem.
  Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Craig D. Hodgson, University of Melbourne
  Steven P. Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
  (934-57-105)

Saturday April 25, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds, II
Room 1, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Dmitry Fuchs, University of California, Davis fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis hass@math.ucdavis.edu
Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis naimi@math.ucdavis.edu
William Thurston, University of California, Davis wpt@math.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Tilings.
  Alberto Candel*, Caltech
  (934-51-147)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Kleinian length functions and the complex of curves.
  Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (934-57-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Canonical genus, free genus, and volume.
  Mark Brittenham*, University of North Texas
  (934-57-69)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Foliation cones.
  John Cantwell*, Saint Louis University
  Lawrence Conlon, Washington University
  (934-57-06)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Harmonic measures on hyperbolic laminations .
  Vadim Kaimanovich, Universite de Rennes
  Mikhail Lyubich*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (934-51-99)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds, III
Room 1, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Dmitry Fuchs, University of California, Davis fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis hass@math.ucdavis.edu
Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis naimi@math.ucdavis.edu
William Thurston, University of California, Davis wpt@math.ucdavis.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric knot spaces and minimal stick numbers .
  Jorge Alberto Calvo*, UCSB
  (934-57-116)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Essential Laminations and Kneser Normal Form.
  David Gabai*, Caltech
  (934-57-118)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algorithms in the Dehn surgery space.
  William Jaco, Oklahoma State University
  Eric Sedgwick*, Oklahoma State University
  (934-57-104)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some Surface Subgroups Survive Surgery.
  Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
  Darren Long, UCSB
  (934-57-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Orientations in contact homology.
  Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
  (934-57-115)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds, IV
Room 1, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
Dmitry Fuchs, University of California, Davis fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis hass@math.ucdavis.edu
Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis naimi@math.ucdavis.edu
William Thurston, University of California, Davis wpt@math.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Intrinsically chiral graphs.
  Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
  (934-57-67)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Heegaard splittings of solvmanifolds.
  Daryl Cooper, Mathematics Department, U. C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
  Martin Scharlemann*, Mathematics Department, U. C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
  (934-57-74)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Multi-variable Alexander polynomial and solvable Lie algebras.
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University
  (934-57-130)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bounds for Thurston-Bennequin numbers of Legendrian links from state models for knot polynomials.
  Sergei Tabachnikov*, University of Arkansas
  (934-57-128)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The geodesic core of a subgroup.
  Rita Gitik*, MSRI
  (934-20-85)

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