AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:30

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday April 19, 1996, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
- 2:15 p.m.
  Average bending of convex hull boundaries.
  Martin J. Bridgeman*, Loyola University
  (911-58-255)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Knot groups, representations and symbolic dynamics.
  Daniel S. Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan Gayle Williams, University of South Alabama
  (911-57-224)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Knot inversion and the isometry groups of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
  Wilbur Whitten*, Lynchburg, Virginia
  (911-57-36)
- 3:45 p.m.
  $4$-manifolds are quotients of $R^4$.
  Donald D. Lawrence*, University of New Orleans
  (911-57-95)
- 4:15 p.m.
  An extremal property of Rohklin's inequality for real algebraic curves.
  Steve Paris*, Northeast Louisiana University
  (911-55-76)
- 4:45 p.m.
  On the homology of branched cyclic covers of knots.
  Wayne H. Stevens*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  (911-57-220)

Saturday April 20, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Floer homology of ends of four-manifolds.
  Zarko Bizaca*, University of Texas, Austin
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  (911-57-91)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The spectral flow of the odd signature operator and higher Massey products.
  Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Eric P. Klassen*, Florida State University
  (911-58-127)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some remarks on complex surfaces and smooth $4$-manifolds.
  Ronald J. Stern*, University of California, Irvine
  (911-57-234)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tight contact structures and Seiberg-Witten invariants.
  Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
  Paolo Lisca, Columbia University
  (911-57-225)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Casson-Lin's invariant and Floer homology.
  Weiping Li*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (911-57-209)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An equivariant Casson invariant for $3$-manifold with cyclic group action.
  Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
  Edward Y. Miller, Polytechnic University
  (911-57-73)

Saturday April 20, 1996, 2:15 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
- 2:15 p.m.
  Symmetries of the Chern manifold.
  Slawomir Kwasik*, Tulane University
  Reinhard E. Schultz, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (911-57-266)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Lissajous knots, billiard knots and their symmetry.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (911-57-78)
- 3:15 p.m.
  The asymptotic density of alternating links.
  Morwen B. Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (911-57-105)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Braided chord diagrams.
  Joan S. Birman, Columbia University
  Rolland J. Trapp*, California State University, San Bernardino
  (911-57-108)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Arrangements of complex hyperplanes and representations of braid groups.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Alexandru I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
  (911-20-227)

Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lower central series of finitely-presented $3$-manifold groups.
  Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
  Kent Orr, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (911-57-101)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Genus two positive Heegaard diagrams.
  John P. Hempel*, Rice University
  (911-57-90)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bounding the number of boundary components of an essential surface in a knot exterior.
  John Edwin Luecke*, University of Texas, Austin
  (911-57-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A combinatorial Cartan theorem.
  Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  Bruce S. Trace*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  (911-57-100)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Tangle analysis of DNA Int recombination.
  De Witt L Sumners*, Florida State University
  (911-57-106)

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