AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:34

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday May 19, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 641, Damen Hall
- 7:00 a.m.
  Eta invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Walter D. Neumann*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Robert Meyerhoff, Boston University
  (849-57-21)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Some new 4-manifolds.
  Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
  (849-57-234)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some simple fake 4-manifolds.
  Robert E. Gompf*, University of Texas, Austin
  (849-57-81)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Representation spaces of Seifert fibered homology spheres.
  Paul Kirk*, California Institute of Technology
  Eric Klassen, California Institute of Technology
  (849-57-72)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Instanton polynomials for homology three spheres.
  Ronald J. Stern*, University of Utah
  Ronald Fintushel, Michigan State University
  (849-57-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Realization of group actions on 4-manifolds.
  Allan L. Edmonds*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  John H. Ewing, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (849-57-99)

Friday May 19, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 641, Damen Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Cutting and pasting and the eta invariant.
  Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
  Robert Meyerhoff, Boston University
  (849-57-67)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On Milnor's invariants and the concordance classification of links.
  Nathan Habegger*, University of Georgia
  Xiao-Song Lin, Columbia University
  (849-57-247)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Homology boundary links, Andrews-Curtis conjecture and the Hawaiian earrings space.
  Tim D. Cochran*, Northwestern University
  (849-57-237)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cochran's link invariants and Massey products.
  Kent Orr*, University of Chicago
  (849-57-240)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Surgery invariants of link cobordism.
  Lawrence J. Smolinsky*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (849-57-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Studying links via closed braids. II.
  William W. Menasco*, State University of New York, Buffalo
  Joan S. Birman, Columbia University
  (849-57-236)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Spherical space forms and Dehn surgery.
  Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
  (849-57-235)

Saturday May 20, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 641, Damen Hall
- 7:00 a.m.
  Studying links via closed braids. I.
  Joan S. Birman*, Columbia University
  William W. Menasco, State University of New York, College at Buffalo
  (849-57-231)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Cutting and pasting and the Chern-Simons invariant.
  Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston University
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  (849-53-82)
- 8:00 a.m.
  On links as obstructions to free reduction.
  R. Craggs*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (849-57-80)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Masses of moduli spaces of punctured surfaces.
  R. C. Penner*, University of Southern California
  (849-51-91)
- 9:00 a.m.
  One fixed point actions on low-dimensional spheres.
  N. P. Buchdahl, Tulane University
  Slawomir Kwasik*, Tulane University
  Reinhard Schultz, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (849-57-102)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Pin structures on manifolds.
  Laurence R. Taylor*, University of Notre Dame
  (849-57-137)

Saturday May 20, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 641, Damen Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Some homeomorphic, but not diffeomorphic homogeneous 7-manifolds with strictly positive sectional curvature.
  Matthias Kreck, Universit\"at Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany
  Stephan Stolz*, University of Notre Dame
  (849-57-201)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Peter B. Shalen*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Marc Culler, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (849-57-232)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Alexander polynomials of periodic knots.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Charles Livingston, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (849-57-101)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Knots and links in 3-manifolds.
  Richard K. Skora*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (849-57-139)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Skein modules of 3-manifolds.
  Jim Hoste*, Pomona College
  J\'ozef Przytycki, University of British Columbia and Warsaw University, Poland
  (849-57-218)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Algebraic geometry and knot polynomials.
  D. Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
  D. D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (849-57-48)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Dehn surgery on knots.
  Cameron Gordon*, University of Texas, Austin
  John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin
  (849-57-200)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the reflexivity of Cappell-Shaneson 2-knots.
  Jonathan A. Hillman*, Macquarie University, Australia
  (849-57-233)

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