AMS :: Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 13, 2013 00:24:55

Associate secretaries:

Steven H. Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds, I
Room S115, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ian Biringer, Boston College
Tao Li, Boston College taoli@bc.edu
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
- 8:30 a.m.
  Commensurability of hyperbolic knot complements.
  Michel Boileau, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
  Steven Boyer, UQAM
  Radu Cebanu*, Boston College
  Genevieve Walsh, TUFTS
  (1088-51-211)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Thurston's gluing equations for PGL(n,C).
  Christian K Zickert*, University of Maryland
  (1088-57-289)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Virtual positivity of representation volumes.
  Yi Liu*, Pasadena
  (1088-57-166)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Small volume link orbifolds.
  Christopher K Atkinson, University of Minnesota, Morris
  David Futer*, Temple University
  (1088-57-66)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Convex Projective Deformations of the Figure-8 Knot Complement.
  Sam Aaron Ballas*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1088-57-172)

Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds, II
Room S115, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ian Biringer, Boston College
Tao Li, Boston College taoli@bc.edu
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
- 3:00 p.m.
  The classification of bridge surfaces for torus knots.
  Alexander Zupan*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1088-57-67)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dehn surgery and bridge number of knots in handlebodies.
  R Sean Bowman*, Oklahoma State University
  (1088-57-199)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Right-angled Coxeter groups and acute triangulations.
  Genevieve S. Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1088-57-139)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Kakimizu complex of a knot.
  Piotr Przytycki, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Jennifer Schultens*, University of California, Davis
  (1088-57-57)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Minimal genus Seifert surfaces for prime, special alternating links.
  Jessica E. Banks*, CRM-ISM, Montreal
  (1088-57-88)

Sunday April 7, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds, III
Room S115, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ian Biringer, Boston College
Tao Li, Boston College taoli@bc.edu
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
- 9:00 a.m.
  A family of non-injective skinning maps with a critical points.
  Jonah Gaster*, University of Illinois - Chicago
  (1088-51-181)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The maximal maximal injectivity radius of hyperbolic surfaces.
  Jason DeBlois*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1088-57-51)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Transcendental Invariant of Pseudo-Anosov Maps.
  Hongbin Sun*, Princeton University
  (1088-57-45)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Curve complexes for right-angled Artin groups.
  Sang-hyun Kim, KAIST
  Thomas Koberda*, Yale University
  (1088-20-217)