AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 23, 2005 00:22:16

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

Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Three Dimensions, I
Room 1115, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Finiteness of $3$-manifolds via non-zero degree mappings.
  J. Hyam Rubinstein*, Currently visiting UCDavis. Davis, Calfiornia 95616
  Michel Boileau, Toulouse University
  Shicheng Wang, Beijing University
  (1007-57-67)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic behavior of foliations.
  Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
  (1007-57-85)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Heegaard splittings and virtual fibers.
  Joseph Maher*, California Institute of Technology
  (1007-57-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Does a random 3-manifold fiber over the circle?
  Nathan M Dunfield*, Caltech
  Dylan P. Thurston, Harvard
  (1007-57-95)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Thin position of knots and 3-manifolds.
  Jennifer C Schultens*, University of California at Davis
  Hugh Howards, Wake Forest University
  (1007-57-100)

Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Three Dimensions, II
Room 1115, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Surgery formulas for Heegaard Floer homology and applications.
  Peter S Ozsvath*, UC Berkeley
  (1007-57-168)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Deforming closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
  D. Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Morwen Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
  (1007-57-71)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic knots in integral homology 3-spheres.
  Mark D. Baker*, Universite Rennes 1
  Alan W. Reid, University of Texas
  (1007-57-219)
- 5:00 p.m.
  All roots of unity are detected by the A-polynomial.
  Eric B. Chesebro*, University of Texas - Austin
  (1007-57-96)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Slender Knots.
  Abigail Thompson*, UC Davis
  Martin Scharlemann, UCSB
  (1007-57-156)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Three Dimensions, III
Room 1115, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Common stabilizaions of Heegaard splittings of link exteriors.
  Jung Hoon Lee*, KAIST
  Gyo Taek Jin, KAIST
  (1007-57-33)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Heegaard splittings and connected sums.
  David Bachman*, Pitzer College
  (1007-57-51)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Alternate Heegaard genus bounds distance.
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Maggy Tomova*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1007-57-101)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Large embedded balls and Heegaard genus in negative curvature.
  David Bachman, Pitzer College
  Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Matthew E White*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  (1007-57-224)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Links with no exceptional surgeries.
  David Futer*, Stanford University
  Jessica S Purcell, University of Texas at Austin
  (1007-57-30)

Sunday April 17, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Three Dimensions, IV
Room 1115, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations.
  Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (1007-57-129)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Incompressible Surfaces and Spunnormal Form.
  Genevieve S. Walsh*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1007-57-131)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Locally Unknotted Spines of Heegaard Splittings.
  Jesse Johnson*, University of California at Davis
  (1007-57-232)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Virtual retractions to Z.
  Darren Long, UCSB
  Alan W Reid*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1007-57-136)

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