AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01

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

Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, I
Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  Incompressible surfaces and Dehn surgery on knots.
  Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University/ UT Austin
  (948-57-294)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Virtual Betti numbers of bundles.
  Joseph D Masters*, Rice University
  (948-57-286)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Immersed essential surfaces without triple points in 3-manifolds.
  Joachim Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
  (948-57-76)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Knots and links in $S^3$ without parallel tangent lines.
  Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
  (948-57-204)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Surgery when degeneracy is $\pm 2$.
  Rachel D Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
  (948-57-195)
- 6:30 p.m.
  On Algebraic Components Of SL(2,C)-Character Varieties Of Knot Exteriors.
  Steven Boyer, University of Quebec at Montreal
  Erhard Luft, University of British Columbia
  Xingru Zhang*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (948-57-58)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, II
Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Foliations and group actions on $S^1$ and $\mathbb{R}$.
  Danny Calegari*, UC Berkeley
  (948-57-146)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Volumes of Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Ian Agol*, U. C. Davis
  (948-57-342)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Supercrossing Number for Knots and Links.
  Colin C Adams*, Williams College
  Sang Pahk, University of California-Davis
  (948-57-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Abelian Subgroup Separability of Kleinian Groups and Fundamental Groups of Haken Manifolds.
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  (948-57-71)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Pseudomodular surfaces.
  Darren Long*, UC Santa Barbara
  Alan W Reid, UT, Austin
  (948-57-116)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, III
Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Weak Lopez Conjecture.
  Marc E Culler, U. of I. at Chicago
  Nathan M Dunfield, Harvard University
  Peter B Shalen*, U. of I. at Chicago
  (948-57-184)
- 3:30 p.m.
  More on the Weak Lopez Conjecture.
  Marc E Culler*, U. of I. at Chicago
  Nathan M Dunfield, Harvard University
  Peter B Shalen, U. of I. at Chicago
  (948-57-186)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Levelling a knot's tunnel.
  Hiroshi Goda, Kobe University
  Martin Scharlemann*, U. C. Santa Barbara
  Abigail Thompson, U. C. Davis
  (948-57-187)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some local properties of the $SL_2(\mathbb C)$-character variety of $3$-manifolds.
  Steven P Boyer*, UQAM
  (948-57-281)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Boundary slopes of immersed surfaces in 3-manifolds.
  Joel Hass*, U. C. Davis
  Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  Shicheng Wang, Bejing University
  (948-57-307)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The shape of hyperbolic Dehn surgery space.
  Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
  Craig Hodgson, University of Melbourne
  (948-53-303)

Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, IV
Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finiteness of (H)eegaard splittings for atoridal $3$--manifolds.
  William H Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
  Joachim H Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  (948-57-210)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Heegaard genus and separating incompressible surfaces.
  Martin G Scharlemann, UCSB
  Jennifer C Schultens*, Emory University
  (948-57-201)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Non-mutant hyperbolic knots with unfaithful double branch covers.
  Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
  Bell Foozwell, University of Melbourne
  Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  (948-57-221)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Seifert surfaces and disk decompositions.
  Mark W Brittenham*, University of North Texas
  (948-57-211)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Decision problems in the space of Dehn fillings.
  William Jaco, Oklahoma State University
  Eric Sedgwick*, DePaul University
  (948-57-309)

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