AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:50

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

Friday October 9, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on the Topology of Three-Manifolds, I
Room 3, Calloway Hall
Organizers:
Hugh Nelson Howards, Wake Forest University howards@wfu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Minimizing Morse Functions Transverse to Boundaries.
  David C Bachman*, University of Texas at Austin
  (936-57-102)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Systoles of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Colin C Adams*, Williams College
  Alan W Reid, University of Texas
  (936-57-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dehn surgery on knots.
  John E. Luecke*, University of Texas, Austin
  (936-57-185)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Free Seifert surfaces for knots.
  Mark Brittenham*, University of North Texas
  (936-57-64)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Knotted Graphs in Balls.
  Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
  (936-57-181)

Friday October 9, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on the Topology of Three-Manifolds, II
Room 3, Calloway Hall
Organizers:
Hugh Nelson Howards, Wake Forest University howards@wfu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Abelian Subgroup Separability.
  Elizabeth S. Allman, University of North Carolina at Asheville
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  (936-57-203)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Degenerations of Representations and the Boundary Curve Space of the Whitehead Link.
  Alan E Lash, UCSB
  Patrick D Shanahan*, Loyola Marymount University
  (936-57-135)
- 3:30 p.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
  (936-57-115)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Genus two 3-manifolds decompose into handle number one pieces.
  Eric D Sedgwick*, Oklahoma State University
  (936-57-211)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The $\lfloor 2\pi\rfloor$-Theorem.
  Ian Agol*, University of California, Davis
  (936-57-133)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Holonomic parametrizations of knots.
  Joan S. Birman*, Barnard College of Columbia University
  Nancy C. Wrinkle, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
  (936-57-168)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Length multiplicities of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Joseph D Masters*, University of Texas at Austin
  (936-57-134)

Saturday October 10, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on the Topology of Three-Manifolds, III
Room 3, Calloway Hall
Organizers:
Hugh Nelson Howards, Wake Forest University howards@wfu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The second homology group of the level 2 mapping class group and extended Torelli group of an orientable surface.
  Joel S Foisy*, SUNY Potsdam
  (936-57-58)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Results concerning surface groups in surgered manifolds.
  Anneke Bart*, Saint Louis University
  (936-57-21)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Relatively-slice links and the lower central series of $3$-manifold groups.
  Vyacheslav S. Krushkal*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (936-57-220)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Subgroup Separability and the Generalized Word Problem in Aut($F_n$) and the Braid Groups.
  Oliver T Dasbach, Columbia University
  Brian S Mangum*, Barnard College - Columbia University
  (936-57-164)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Planar Normal Surfaces and the Word Problem.
  William H Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
  Joachim H Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  Eric D Sedgwick, Oklahoma State University
  (936-57-222)

Saturday October 10, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on the Topology of Three-Manifolds, IV
Room 3, Calloway Hall
Organizers:
Hugh Nelson Howards, Wake Forest University howards@wfu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Integral points on character varieties.
  Darren Long, U.C.S.B.
  Alan W. Reid*, University of Texas
  (936-57-136)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Yang-Mills Measure in the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module.
  Doug Bullock*, University of Maryland
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (936-57-162)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Counting Heegaard Genus and Tunnel Number .
  Martin G. Scharlemann, UCSB
  Jennifer C. Schultens*, Emory University
  (936-57-214)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Intrinsically chiral colored graphs.
  Erica L. Flapan*, Pomona College
  David L. Li, Pomona College
  (936-57-137)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Simple closed curves and pseudo-Anosov maps.
  Shicheng Wang, Beijing University
  Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
  Qing Zhou, Easten China Normal University
  (936-57-160)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Existence of Essential Laminations.
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
  (936-57-194)
- 5:30 p.m.
  SL(2) characters of groups .
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
  (936-57-156)

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