AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on the Topology of 3-Manifolds, I
Room 312, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College jb@math.columbia.edu
Brian S. Mangum, Barnard College mangum@math.columbia.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College neumann@math.columbia.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Orbifold Theorem.
  Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
  Craig Hodgson, Melbourne
  Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford
  (959-57-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Covering spaces and Dehn fillings.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
  (959-57-198)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Towards unification of number theory and 3-dimensional topology.
  Adam S Sikora*, CRM/ISM
  (959-57-288)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mahler measure and Alexander polynomials of links.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  (959-57-103)

Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on the Topology of 3-Manifolds, II
Room 312, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College jb@math.columbia.edu
Brian S. Mangum, Barnard College mangum@math.columbia.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College neumann@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cusp volumes and cusp densities for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Colin C Adams*, Williams College
  (959-57-260)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Metric characterizations of spherical and Euclidean buildings.
  Ruth M Charney*, Ohio State University
  Alexander Lytchak, University of Bonn
  (959-20-273)
- 3:30 p.m.
  All flat manifolds are hyperbolic orbifold cusp cross-sections.
  Darren D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
  Alan W Reid, University of Texas
  (959-57-116)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Quest for the Low Volume Hyperbolic 3-Manifold.
  Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
  (959-57-272)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bounded geometry for hyperbolic manifolds.
  Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (959-57-175)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The double of the figure eight is GFERF.
  Alan W Reid*, U. T. Austin
  Darren Long, U.C.S.B.
  (959-57-188)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on the Topology of 3-Manifolds, III
Room 312, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College jb@math.columbia.edu
Brian S. Mangum, Barnard College mangum@math.columbia.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College neumann@math.columbia.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Yang-Mills Measure in the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles D Frohman*, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (959-57-129)
- 9:30 a.m.
  3-Manifolds up to complexity 9 Carlo Petronio (joint with Bruno Martelli).
  Carlo Petronio*, University of Pisa
  (959-57-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Symplectic structure on colorings of tangles.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (959-57-278)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On special 2-polyhedra and fake surfaces.
  Du\v{s}an Repov\v{s}*, University of Ljubljana
  (959-57-93)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on the Topology of 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 312, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College jb@math.columbia.edu
Brian S. Mangum, Barnard College mangum@math.columbia.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College neumann@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A new class of useful surfaces in 3-manifolds.
  David C Bachman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (959-57-294)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The mapping class group of a genus 2 surface is linear.
  Stephen J Bigelow, Berkeley
  Ryan D Budney*, Cornell
  (959-57-82)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dynnikov's formulas for the linear ordering of braids.
  Patrick Dehornoy*, University of Caen, France
  (959-57-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Torsion elements in the mapping class group of a surface.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
  (959-57-147)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ordering 3-manifold groups.
  Dale P. Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia
  Bert Wiest, UBC-PIMS postdoctoral fellow
  Steven Boyer, UQAM
  (959-55-117)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Unknotting tunnels and Seifert surfaces.
  Martin Scharlemann*, U. C. Santa Barbara
  (959-57-159)

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