AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:13

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Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Thursday June 16, 1994, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on 3-Manifolds, I
Room 244, Gilbert
- 2:00 p.m.
  Detecting Heegaard splittings of Seifert manifolds.
  John Hempel*, Rice University
  (893-57-62)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On two-generator 3-manifolds.
  Steven A. Bleiler, Portland State University
  Amelia C. Jones*, University of California, Davis
  (893-57-18)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the genus two 3-manifolds admitting a nontrivial torus decomposition.
  John R. Neil*, Portland State University
  (893-57-58)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and 3-orbifolds with two generators.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  (893-57-07)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic bundles.
  A. W. Reid*, University of Cambridge, England
  D. Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
  D. D. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (893-57-13)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Embedding curves in the boundary of a handlebody.
  Edith Starr*, Vassar College
  (893-57-28)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Heegaard splittings of Seifert manifolds.
  Yoav Moriah, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  Jennifer Schultens*, Emory University
  (893-57-16)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Finite laminations and geometric finiteness.
  D. Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  D. D. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
  A. W. Reid, University of Cambridge, England
  (893-57-09)

Friday June 17, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on 3-Manifolds, II
Room 244, Gilbert
- 9:00 a.m.
  Comparing Heegaard splittings of non-Haken 3-manifolds.
  Hyam Rubinstein, Melbourne University, Australia
  Martin Scharlemann*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (893-57-22)
- 9:30 a.m.
  How to construct a large collection of Laminar 3-manifolds.
  Elly Claus-McGahan*, University of Puget Sound
  (893-57-10)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Surgery information from surfaces.
  Rachel Roberts*, California Institute of Technology
  (893-57-15)

Friday June 17, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on 3-Manifolds, III
Room 244, Gilbert
- 3:30 p.m.
  Linear representations of mapping class groups.
  Steven J. Kangas*, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico
  (893-57-23)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Describing open 3-manifolds by means of infinite framed links.
  Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
  (893-57-12)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topological quantum field theory and 3-manifolds.
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (893-57-11)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Negatively curved groups have the convergence property, II.
  Eric M. Freden*, Brigham Young University
  (893-20-19)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the classification of 2-complexes with spherical-space-form fundamental groups.
  F. Rudolf Beyl*, Portland State University
  M. Paul Latiolais, Portland State University
  Nancy Waller, Portland State University
  (893-57-21)

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