AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 8, 2002, 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory, 3-Manifolds, 4-Manifolds, and Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 213, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Jose Carlos G\' omez-Larra\~ naga, CIMAT, Mexico jcarlos@cimat.mx
- 2:10 p.m.
  Constructing and classifying tight contact structures.
  Ko J Honda, USC
  William H. Kazez*, UGA
  Gordana Matic, UGA
  (975-57-123)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Chord Diagrams and Coxeter Links.
  Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University
  (975-57-236)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Linking of Minimal Sets in Lorenz Systems.
  Michael C Sullivan*, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  Alex Clark, University of North Texas
  (975-37-28)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Wild knots as limit sets of Kleinian Groups.
  Gabriela Hinojosa*, IM-UNAM
  (975-57-163)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Classifying contact structures.
  Ko Honda, University of Southern California
  Will Kazez, University of Georgia
  Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
  (975-57-273)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Break.
- 5:10 p.m.
  The Lawrence-Krammer representation is unitary.
  Ryan D Budney*, Cornell University
  (975-57-184)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory, 3-Manifolds, 4-Manifolds, and Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 213, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Jose Carlos G\' omez-Larra\~ naga, CIMAT, Mexico jcarlos@cimat.mx
- 8:00 a.m.
  Links and their complements.
  Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  (975-57-265)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dehn filling on outer torus of 1-bridge braid exterior.
  Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
  (975-57-287)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:15 a.m.
  Constructing essential laminations and taut foliations in surgered 3-manifolds.
  Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (975-57-268)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Additivity properties of the width of a knot.
  Jennifer C Schultens*, Emory University
  (975-57-264)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Group Actions and Laminations.
  Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
  (975-57-125)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory, 3-Manifolds, 4-Manifolds, and Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 213, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Jose Carlos G\' omez-Larra\~ naga, CIMAT, Mexico jcarlos@cimat.mx
- 3:05 p.m.
  Triple point numbers of twist-spun trefoils after Satoh and Shima.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (975-57-154)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Torsion Numbers of Augmented Groups.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  (975-57-288)
- 4:05 p.m.
  The classification of rigid even Coxeter groups.
  Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  (975-20-188)
- 4:35 p.m.
  Cocycle knot invariants, Alexander matrices, and generalizations.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (975-57-132)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Eigenvalue fields of hyperbolic manifolds.
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  Alan W Reid, University of Texas at Austin
  (975-57-181)
- 5:35 p.m.
  Coverings of Seifert knots.
  V\'\i ctor N\'u\~nez*, CIMAT
  Enrique Ram\'\i rez, CIMAT
  (975-57-267)

Sunday March 10, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory, 3-Manifolds, 4-Manifolds, and Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 213, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Jose Carlos G\' omez-Larra\~ naga, CIMAT, Mexico jcarlos@cimat.mx
- 8:00 a.m.
  Isolated critical points of maps $\mathbb{R}^4\to \mathbb{R}^2$, contact forms on $S^3$, the enhanced Milnor number, and quasipositive fibered links.
  Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
  (975-57-113)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariants of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann type for $3$-manifolds.
  Jos\'e-Carlos G\'omez-Larra\~naga*, CIMAT, MEXICO
  Francisco Gonz\'alez-Acu\~na, UNAM, MEXICO
  Wolfgang Heil, Florida State University
  (975-57-190)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:10 a.m.
  On the relationship between crossing number and the length of thick knots and links.
  Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (975-53-270)
- 10:40 a.m.
  On the classification of rational 3-tangles: Applications to Gin recombination.
  Cabrera Hugo*, IPICYT
  (975-57-253)
- 11:10 a.m.
  The Lower Bounds Of The Lengths Of Thick Knots.
  Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
  (975-57-100)
- 11:40 a.m.
  The state of the game in the enumeration of classical links.
  Morwen B Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (975-57-344)

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