AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:43

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

Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, I
Room 122, Wilson
Organizers:
John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Representations of the quantum Teichm\"uller space.
  Xiaobo Liu*, University of Southern California
  (999-57-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Thick surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Joseph D Masters*, SUNY Buffalo
  (999-57-257)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Geometric tameness in three-manifolds with word-hyperbolic fundamental group.
  Joshua B Barnard*, University of Oklahoma
  (999-57-212)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Incompressible surfaces and spunnormal form.
  Genevieve S Walsh*, University of Texas at Austin
  (999-57-213)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, II
Room 122, Wilson
Organizers:
John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Totally Geodesic Surfaces in Hyperbolic Knot and Link Complements.
  Colin C Adams*, Williams College
  Hanna Bennett, University of Chicago
  Christopher Davis, MIT
  Michael Jennings, Cornell Univiersity
  Jennifer Novak, Stanford University
  Nicholas Perry, Newton, MA
  Eric Schoenfeld, Stanford University
  (999-57-148)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Cusp Shapes of Hyperbolic Knot Complements and Dehn Filling.
  Jessica S. Purcell*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (999-57-168)
- 3:50 p.m.
  A birationality result for character varieties.
  Stephan Tillmann*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
  Benjamin Klaff, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
  (999-57-184)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Small covers of regular right-angled hyperbolic polytopes.
  Anne Garrison, Seattle, Washington
  Richard Scott*, Santa Clara University
  (999-57-231)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, III
Room 122, Wilson
Organizers:
John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Hyperbolic volume and mod 2 homology, Part I.
  Marc Culler, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Peter B. Shalen*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (999-57-270)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hyperbolic volume and mod 2 homology, Part II.
  Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (999-57-272)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Subgroup separability of free products with amalgamation of hyperbolic $3$-manifold groups.
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  (999-57-200)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Covers of arithmetic 3-orbifolds with positive first betti number.
  Alan W Reid*, U. T. Austin
  (999-57-185)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, IV
Room 122, Wilson
Organizers:
John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups.
  Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
  Vitali Kapovitch, Universit�t M�nster
  (999-53-82)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Hyperbolic structure on some complements of tori and Klein bottles in the 4-sphere.
  Dubravko Ivan\v si\' c*, Murray State University
  John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
  (999-57-105)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Some examples of aspherical 4-manifolds that are homology 4-spheres.
  John G. Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
  (999-57-206)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Smallest Hyperbolic 6-Manifolds.
  Brent Everitt, University of York
  John Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University
  Steven Tschantz*, Vanderbilt University
  (999-57-191)

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