
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, April 16, 2011 00:22:58
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2011 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
April 9-10, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1070
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Geometry and Applications of 3-Manifolds
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Saturday April 9, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Applications of 3-Manifolds, I
Rm 125, Beven Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
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3:00 p.m.
Exceptional Lines and Separating Sets at Singular Points of Complex Surfaces.
Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortalesa-Ce, Brasil
Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
Donal O'Shea*, Mount Holyoke College
(1070-14-297) -
3:30 p.m.
On the topology of non isolated singularities of complex surfaces.
Anne Pichon*, Aix-Marseille University
(1070-32-224) -
4:00 p.m.
What do perverse sheaves tell you about the topology of analytic spaces?
David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
(1070-32-98) -
4:30 p.m.
On the minimal degree of a transverse $\mathbf{C}$-link, with an application to topological slice genus of classical knots.
Lee Rudolph*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester MA
(1070-57-73) -
5:00 p.m.
Casson-Lin type invariants for links.
Eric Harper*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami
(1070-57-139) -
5:30 p.m.
Width is Not Additive.
Ryan C Blair*, University of Pennsylvania
Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
(1070-57-317)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Applications of 3-Manifolds, II
Rm 125, Beven Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
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8:00 a.m.
In Search of the First Infinite Hyperbolic Volume Stem.
Robert Meyerhoff*, Department of Mathematics, Boston College
(1070-57-320) -
8:30 a.m.
The geometry of unknotting tunnels.
Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
David Futer*, Temple University
Jessica S Purcell, Brigham Young University
(1070-57-267) -
9:00 a.m.
Some 3-manifolds with large fundamental group.
Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
(1070-57-241) -
9:30 a.m.
The self linking number and open book decomposition.
Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
(1070-57-189) -
10:00 a.m.
Hidden symmetries of links via mutations with hidden extension.
Eric Chesebro, University of Montana
Jason DeBlois*, Stanford University
(1070-57-309) -
10:30 a.m.
Geometry and topology of polyhedral $3$--orbifolds.
Christopher K. Atkinson*, Temple University
(1070-57-264)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Applications of 3-Manifolds, III
Rm 125, Beven Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
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3:00 p.m.
Character varieties and symmetries of 2-bridge knots.
Melissa Macasieb*, University of Maryland
Kathleen Petersen, Florida State University
(1070-57-328) -
3:30 p.m.
Character Varieties of a Family of Once-Punctured Torus Bundles.
Kenneth Baker, University of Miami
Kathleen Petersen*, Florida State University
(1070-57-292) -
4:00 p.m.
Closed surfaces and the character variety.
Eric B. Chesebro*, University of Montana
(1070-57-146) -
4:30 p.m.
Growth rates for stable commutator length.
Joseph Maher*, College of Staten Island CUNY
(1070-57-10)
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3:00 p.m.
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