AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:34

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

Friday October 24, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots, Links, and Embedded Graphs, I
Room 304, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Joel S. Foisy, SUNY at Potsdam foisyjs@potsdam.edu
Erica L. Flapan, Pomona College elf04747@pomona.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Total Curvature and Packing of Knots.
  Jonathan K Simon*, University of Iowa
  Gregory R Buck, St. Anselm College
  (991-57-152)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Polygonal Cable Links.
  Rollie Trapp*, California State University, San Bernardino
  (991-57-243)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tying Knots with Stiff Rope.
  Eric J Rawdon*, Duquesne University
  Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
  (991-57-215)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Regular and Almost Regular Stick Numbers of Knots.
  Timothy D Comar*, Benedictine University
  Jessica M Tyrus, Benedictine University
  (991-57-30)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Tangle Solutions for a Family of DNA-Rearranging Proteins.
  Dorothy Buck*, Brown University
  (991-57-194)

Friday October 24, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Knots, Links, and Embedded Graphs, II
Room 304, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Joel S. Foisy, SUNY at Potsdam foisyjs@potsdam.edu
Erica L. Flapan, Pomona College elf04747@pomona.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  2-irreducibility of spatial graphs.
  Fengchun Lei, Harbin Institute of Technology
  Kouki Taniyama*, Waseda University
  Gengyu Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology
  (991-57-173)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Intersection graphs for string links.
  Blake Mellor*, Loyola Marymount University
  (991-57-23)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Musings on Links, Planar Graphs and Plane Curves.
  Jeff Johannes*, SUNY Geneseo
  (991-57-82)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Intrinsically Linked Graphs, Kuratowski Minors, and Embeddings in Surfaces.
  Thomas Fleming*, University of California San Diego
  (991-57-84)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ends of 4-Manifolds.
  Sandy Ganzell*, Pomona College
  (991-57-263)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Minor deformation of graphs preserving achiral embeddability.
  Kazuaki Kobayashi*, Tokyo Womans Christian University
  (991-05-35)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots, Links, and Embedded Graphs, III
Room 304, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Joel S. Foisy, SUNY at Potsdam foisyjs@potsdam.edu
Erica L. Flapan, Pomona College elf04747@pomona.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Graphs with disjoint links in every spatial embedding.
  Anton Michael Dochtermann*, University of Washington
  (991-54-125)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Intrinsically knotted and linked graphs in 3-space.
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College
  Joel Foisy, SUNY Postdam
  Ramin Naimi*, Occidental College
  James Pommersheim, Pomona College
  (991-57-52)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Two families of (minor minimal?) intrinsically knotted graphs.
  Joel S Foisy*, SUNY Potsdam
  (991-57-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Delta edge-homotopy on theta curves.
  Ryo Nikkuni*, Waseda University
  (991-57-73)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The size of links in spatial embeddings of graphs.
  Brenda Johnson*, Union College
  William Johnson, New York, NY
  (991-55-242)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Knots, Links, and Embedded Graphs, IV
Room 304, Dey Hall
Organizers:
Joel S. Foisy, SUNY at Potsdam foisyjs@potsdam.edu
Erica L. Flapan, Pomona College elf04747@pomona.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Totally geodesic Seifert surfaces in hyperbolic knot and link complements.
  Colin C Adams*, Williams College
  Eric Schoenfeld, Boston, MA
  (991-57-106)
- 3:00 p.m.
  3-manifolds with planar presentations and the width of satellite knots.
  Martin Scharlemann*, U. C. Santa Barbara
  Jennifer Schultens, U. C. Davis
  (991-57-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dihedral covers of two-bridge knot complements.
  Genevieve S Walsh*, University of Texas at Austin
  (991-57-203)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Links, Mahler measure and Lehmer's Question.
  Daniel S. Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G. Williams, University of South Alabama
  (991-57-244)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Round Brunnian Links.
  Hugh Nelson Howards*, Wake Forest University
  (991-57-239)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic Distance: Incompressible Surfaces, Graphs of Intersection and Dehn Filling.
  Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte*, St. Edward's University
  (991-57-206)

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