AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:09

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday March 11, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in 3-manifolds, I
Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Taut foliations with one sided branching.
  Danny Calegari*, UC Berkeley
  (951-57-108)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Seifert surfaces and sutured handlebodies.
  Mark W Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
  (951-57-138)
- 9:00 a.m.
  R-covered foliations in 3-manifolds and transverse pseudo-Anosov flows.
  Sergio R Fenley*, Washington University
  (951-57-148)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Perturbing foliations.
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
  (951-57-30)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Laminar Branched Surfaces in 3-manifolds.
  Tao Li*, California Institute of Technology
  (951-57-18)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Weil-Petersson metric and the geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Jeffrey F Brock*, Stanford University
  (951-30-159)

Saturday March 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in 3-manifolds, II
Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spherical orbifolds and cone-manifolds.
  Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
  Craig D Hodgson, Univ. of Melbourne
  Steven P Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
  (951-53-31)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Kleinian groups generated by 2 parabolics.
  Ian Agol*, UC Davis
  (951-57-34)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic Links and 3-Manifolds.
  Mark D Baker*, Universite de Rennes 1
  (951-57-19)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic knots in 3-manifolds.
  Alan W Reid*, University of Texas
  Mark D Baker, I.R.M.A.R.
  (951-57-140)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Self-bumping of deformations spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Kenneth W Bromberg*, University of Michigan
  John H Holt, University of Michigan
  (951-57-29)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A Diameter Bound for Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
  Matthew E White*, U.C. Santa Barbara
  (951-57-161)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Small Eigenvalues of Sequences of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
  Carol E. Fan*, Loyola Marymount University
  Jay Jorgenson, City College of New York
  (951-58-20)

Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in 3-manifolds, III
Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Complexity of algorithms for 3-manifolds.
  Joachim H Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
  William H Jaco, Oklahoma State University
  Ben Burton, University of Melbourne
  David Lestcher, Oklahoma State University
  (951-57-22)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Layered triangulations and Heegaard splittings of lens spaces and small Seifert fibered spaces.
  William H Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
  David Letscher, Oklahoma State University
  Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  Eric Sedgwick, DePaul University
  (951-57-23)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric Triangulations of 3-Manifolds.
  David Letscher*, Oklahoma State
  Greg Leibon, Dartmouth
  (951-57-28)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Brunnian links are determined by their complements.
  Brian S Mangum*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  Theodore Stanford, United States Naval Academy
  (951-57-121)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Virtual Betti Numbers of Closed Bundles.
  Joseph D Masters*, Rice University
  (951-57-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Convex subgroups and torsion in CAT(0) groups.
  Eric L Swenson*, BYU
  (951-20-167)

Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in 3-manifolds, IV
Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Alexander and Thurston norms of fibered 3-manifolds.
  Nathan M Dunfield*, Harvard University
  (951-57-137)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A symplectic model for the Seiberg-Witten Floer homology of mapping tori.
  Michael L Hutchings*, Stanford University
  (951-58-17)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convexity in Contact Topology.
  John B Etnyre*, Stanford University
  (951-57-14)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Results in geometric group theory.
  Jeremy Shor*, UCSB
  (951-20-166)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Intrinsically knotted or linked graphs in $R^3$.
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College
  Ramin Naimi*, Occidental College
  James Pommersheim, Pomona College
  (951-57-85)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Stabilizations of Heegaard Splittings and PL Index 2 Minimal Surfaces.
  Bachman C David*, Portland State University
  (951-57-12)

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