AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Kleinian Groups, I
Room LG 76, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago agol@math.uic.edu
John Holt, University of Illinois at Chicago jholt@math.uic.edu
Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago saul@math.uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Minimal Triangulations of Closed Orientable Reducible 3-Manifolds.
  Alexander Charles Barchechat*, Tulane University
  (1001-57-88)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Eigenvalue fields of arithmetic Kleinian groups.
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  Alan W Reid, University of Texas at Austin
  (1001-57-363)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The density conjecture for manifolds with bounded geometry.
  Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
  Juan Souto, Bonn
  (1001-57-405)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The mapping class group action on quasi-Fuchsian space.
  Juan Souto, CNRS
  Peter Storm*, Stanford University
  (1001-53-291)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Surface groups are frequently faithful.
  Jason DeBlois, University of Texas at Austin
  Richard P Kent*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1001-57-131)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Kleinian Groups, II
Room LG 76, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago agol@math.uic.edu
John Holt, University of Illinois at Chicago jholt@math.uic.edu
Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago saul@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Noncyclic covers of knot complements.
  Nathan Darrell Broaddus*, Cornell University
  (1001-57-55)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic manifolds.
  Dick Canary*, University of Michigan
  (1001-00-433)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cusp Shapes of Hyperbolic Link Complements.
  Jessica S Purcell*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1001-57-275)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Group Actions and Codimension One Foliations.
  Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
  (1001-57-415)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Closed Essential Surfaces in the Complements of Large Volume Berge Knots.
  Ken Baker*, The University of Georgia at Athens
  (1001-57-379)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Cohomology constructions for hyperbolic knot and link complements.
  Anneke Bart, Saint Louis University
  Kevin P. Scannell*, Saint Louis University
  (1001-57-365)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Kleinian Groups, III
Room LG 76, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago agol@math.uic.edu
John Holt, University of Illinois at Chicago jholt@math.uic.edu
Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago saul@math.uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Distribution of length segments for a random geodesic.
  Martin Bridgeman*, Boston College
  David Dumas, Harvard University
  (1001-00-432)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Towards a classification of Primitive/Seifert-Fibered tunnel number one knots.
  John O. Berge*, Madison, WI
  (1001-57-366)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Punctured torus quasifuchsian groups.
  Francois Gueritaud*, University of Southern California
  (1001-57-330)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Heegaard splittings and hyperbolic geometry.
  Hossein Namazi*, Yale University and Stony Brook University
  (1001-57-422)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Kleinian Groups, IV
Room LG 76, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago agol@math.uic.edu
John Holt, University of Illinois at Chicago jholt@math.uic.edu
Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago saul@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations.
  Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (1001-57-292)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A combination theorem for Veech subgroups of the mapping class group.
  Christopher J. Leininger*, Columbia University
  Alan W. Reid, University of Texas at Austin
  (1001-51-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Representation-volume rigidity for hyperbolic manifolds.
  Ben Klaff*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1001-57-329)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometric tameness in word-hyperbolic closed three-manifold groups.
  Joshua B Barnard*, University of Oklahoma
  (1001-57-388)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Teichmuller geodesics and Lines of Minima.
  Kasra Rafi*, University of California Santa Barbara
  Caroline Series, University of Warwick
  Young-Eun Choi,
  (1001-00-431)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Heegaard genus of a union of small manifolds.
  Eric Sedgwick*, DePaul University
  David Bachman, Pitzer College
  Saul Schleimer, Rutgers University
  (1001-57-369)

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