AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 11, 2008 00:21:06

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

Saturday May 3, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds, I
Room B-36, Bauer South
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
David Bachman, Pitzer College david_bachman@pitzer.edu
Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
Jim Hoste, Pitzer College jhoste@pitzer.edu
Patrick Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University pshanahan@lmu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Boring split links and unknots.
  Scott A. Taylor*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1039-57-30)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Almost Normal Surfaces in Knot Complemets.
  Robin T Wilson*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  (1039-57-106)
- 9:00 a.m.
  C-incompressible planar surfaces in knot complements.
  Maggy Tomova*, Rice University
  (1039-57-65)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Triangulations of link-manifolds.
  William H Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
  J Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
  (1039-57-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Heegaard structure of Dehn filled manifolds.
  Yoav Moriah, Technion, Haifa, Israel
  Eric Sedgwick*, DePaul University
  (1039-57-132)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bounding the stable genera of Heegaard splittings from below.
  Jesse Johnson*, Yale University
  (1039-57-47)

Saturday May 3, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds, II
Room B-36, Bauer South
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
David Bachman, Pitzer College david_bachman@pitzer.edu
Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
Jim Hoste, Pitzer College jhoste@pitzer.edu
Patrick Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University pshanahan@lmu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Virtual Betti numbers of 3-manifolds and symplectic 4-manifolds with K = 0.
  Stefano Vidussi*, University of California, Riverside
  (1039-57-146)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The universal $sl(2)$-link cohomology via webs and foams.
  Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  (1039-57-79)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A sequence of degree one Vassiliev invariants for virtual knots.
  Allison K Henrich*, Dartmouth College
  (1039-57-40)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds as holomorphic functions.
  Sergiy Koshkin*, Northwestern University
  (1039-57-12)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $A_{4}$-colored knots and their surgery equivalence.
  Steven D. Wallace*, Louisiana State University
  (1039-57-16)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Spatial graph diagrams realizing prescribed subdiagrams partitions.
  Reiko Shinjo*, Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute (OCAMI)
  (1039-51-143)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds, III
Room B-36, Bauer South
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
David Bachman, Pitzer College david_bachman@pitzer.edu
Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
Jim Hoste, Pitzer College jhoste@pitzer.edu
Patrick Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University pshanahan@lmu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Rational structure on algebraic tangles and closed incompressible surfaces in the complements algebraically alternating knots and links.
  Ozawa Makoto*, Komazawa University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences
  (1039-57-29)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasifuchsian Spanning Surfaces in Knot Complements.
  Colin C. Adams*, Williams College
  (1039-57-57)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The volume and Jones polynomial of hyperbolic links.
  David Futer*, Michigan State University
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
  (1039-57-58)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Commensurability classes of (-2,3,n) pretzel knot complements.
  Melissa L Macasieb, The University of British Columbia
  Thomas W Mattman*, California State University, Chico
  (1039-57-61)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Commensurability of knot complements.
  Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1039-57-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Special links.
  Eric B. Chesebro*, Rice University
  Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Henry Wilton, University of Texas at Austin
  (1039-57-89)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds, IV
Room B-36, Bauer South
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
David Bachman, Pitzer College david_bachman@pitzer.edu
Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
Jim Hoste, Pitzer College jhoste@pitzer.edu
Patrick Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University pshanahan@lmu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Intrinsic linking and knotting are arbitrarily complex.
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College
  Blake Mellor*, Loyola Marymount University
  Ramin Naimi, Occidental College
  (1039-57-92)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Milnor invariants for spatial graphs.
  Thomas R Fleming*, UC San Diego
  (1039-57-50)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Intrinsically linked graphs in ${\mathbb R}P^3$.
  Jason Bustamante, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
  Joel Foisy*, SUNY Potsdam
  Kenji Kozai, Harvey Mudd College
  Kevin Matthews, SUNY Potsdam
  Trickey Kristen, Clarkson University
  (1039-57-24)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Intrinsically $n$-linked Spatial Graphs and Minor Minimality.
  Danielle O'Donnol*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1039-54-72)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Clasp-pass moves on spatial handcuff graphs.
  Takaaki Hoki, Waseda University
  Ryo Nikkuni, Kanazawa University
  Kouki Taniyama*, Waseda University
  (1039-57-88)
- 5:30 p.m.
  An intrinsic non-triviality of graphs.
  Ryo Nikkuni*, Kanazawa University
  (1039-57-38)

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