AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:40

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

Friday March 12, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, I
Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tameness of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (994-57-86)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasi-Fuchsian immersions in cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Joseph D Masters*, SUNY Buffalo
  Xingru Zhang, SUNY Buffalo
  (994-57-205)
- 10:00 a.m.
  LERF and tameness.
  Darren Long, UCSB
  Alan W Reid*, University of Texas at Austin
  (994-57-62)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Finite quotients of rings and applications to subgroup separability of linear groups.
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  (994-57-135)

Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, II
Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Unknotting number 1 knots with non-trivial characteristic toric splitting.
  Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  John E Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
  (994-57-154)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Remarks on 2-universal links.
  V\'\i ctor N\'u\~nez*, CIMAT
  (994-57-140)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Constructing knots with trivial mapping class group in closed, orientable 3-manifolds.
  Robert Myers*, Oklahoma State University
  (994-57-119)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Classifying orientation reversing actions on lens spaces.
  John Kalliongis*, Saint Louis University
  Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
  (994-57-47)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Smale Conjecture for Elliptic 3-manifolds.
  Sungbok Hong, Korea University
  Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
  J. H. Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  (994-57-51)

Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, III
Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Compression branched surfaces and tight laminations.
  Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (994-57-120)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Seifert surfaces with different depths.
  Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
  (994-57-101)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nonexistence of foliations.
  Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
  John Shareshian, Washington University in St Louis
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  (994-57-178)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Uniform 1 Cochains and Genuine Laminations.
  Baris Coskunuzer*, Princeton University
  (994-57-207)

Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, IV
Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Width and Depth for Heegaard splittings.
  John Hempel*, Rice University
  (994-57-183)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Relative Heegaard Genus of Haken 3-Manifolds.
  Jennifer C Schultens*, Univ Cal Davis
  (994-57-139)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Blow-ups of ideal triangulations of $3$--manifolds.
  William Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
  J Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  (994-57-88)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discretized configuration spaces.
  Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
  (994-57-180)

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