AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:45

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 26, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, I
Room 215, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Michael Kapovich, University of Utah kapovich@math.utah.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah gmikhalk@math.utah.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Surface subgroups of Coxeter groups.
  Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  Darren D Long, UC Santa Barbara
  Alan W Reid, University of Texas at Austin
  (981-20-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds.
  D Calegari*, California Institute of Technology
  (981-57-62)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Compactifications of leaves and foliations.
  Alberto Candel*, CSUN
  (981-58-69)

Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, II
Room 215, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Michael Kapovich, University of Utah kapovich@math.utah.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah gmikhalk@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  An invariant of tangle cobordisms.
  Mikhail Khovanov*, University of California, Davis
  (981-57-18)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Higher-Order Alexander Modules with Applications to the Thurston Norm and Symplectic 4-manifolds.
  Shelly Harvey*, University of California, San Diego
  (981-57-64)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Cube complexes for groups and manifolds.
  Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  (981-20-68)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The \emph{loop shortening property} and almost convexity.
  Murray J Elder*, Tufts University
  (981-20-30)

Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, III
Room 215, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Michael Kapovich, University of Utah kapovich@math.utah.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah gmikhalk@math.utah.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Ending laminations and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Jeffrey F. Brock*, University of Chicago
  Richard D. Canary, University of Michigan
  Yair N. Minsky, SUNY Stony Brook
  (981-51-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometric inflexibility of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Kenneth Bromberg*, Caltech
  Jeff Brock, University of Chicago
  (981-51-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Small principal curvature surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Christopher J Leininger*, Columbia University
  (981-57-42)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Small 3-manifolds of large genus.
  Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (981-57-67)

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