AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complexity of Geometric Structures on Manifolds, I
Room 1006, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Melvin G. Rothenberg, University of Chicago mel@math.uchicago.edu
Shmuel A. Weinberger, University of Chicago shmuel@math.uchicago.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discrete groups acting on compact manifolds .
  Benson Farb*, University of Chicago
  Peter Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (935-57-224)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Functional Integrals and Vassiliev Invariants
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (935-55-129)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Positive Scalar Curvature for Complete Manifolds of Bounded Geometry.
  Kevin M Whyte*, Univ. of Utah
  (935-57-204)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Counterexamples to the Equivariant Borel Conjecture.
  Nadya K Shirokova*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne
  (935-51-106)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complexity of Geometric Structures on Manifolds, II
Room 1006, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Melvin G. Rothenberg, University of Chicago mel@math.uchicago.edu
Shmuel A. Weinberger, University of Chicago shmuel@math.uchicago.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Algorithmic aspects of some topological problems.
  Alexander Nabutovsky, Univeristy of Toronto
  Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
  (935-57-73)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Variational problems for Riemannian functionals and arithmetic groups.
  Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
  Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
  (935-53-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Towers of Coverings and $L^2$ Invariants.
  Bryan F. Clair*, CUNY Graduate Center
  (935-58-170)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Minimal Genus Problem in a Symplectic Four-Manifold .
  Peter S Ozsvath*, IAS
  Zoltan Szabo, Princeton University
  (935-57-46)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Complexity of Geometric Structures on Manifolds, III
Room 1006, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Melvin G. Rothenberg, University of Chicago mel@math.uchicago.edu
Shmuel A. Weinberger, University of Chicago shmuel@math.uchicago.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cyclic surgery, degrees of maps of character curves, and volume rigidity for hyperbolic manifolds.
  Nathan M. Dunfield*, University of Chicago
  (935-57-71)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Small Dehn Surgeries, Part II.
  Steve Boyer, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
  Marc Culler*, UIC, Chicago, IL
  Peter B Shalen, UIC, Chicago, IL
  Xingru Zhang, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
  (935-57-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Small Dehn Fillings, I.
  Steven P. Boyer, University of Quebec at Montreal
  Marc Culler, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Peter B Shalen*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Xingru Zhang, Oklahoma State University
  (935-57-103)

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