AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:47

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

Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 161, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Arnold-type invariants of curves on surfaces and homotopy groups of the space of curves.
  Vladimir V Tchernov*, Uppsala University, Sweden
  (931-57-87)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Infinite Coxeter groups are virtually indicable.
  D Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
  D D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
  A W Reid, UT Austin
  (931-57-13)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Invariants of Heegaard Splittings.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (931-57-84)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Almost Normal Surfaces with Boundary in 3-Manifolds .
  Michelle M Stocking*, University of Texas, Austin
  (931-57-40)

Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 161, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Alternating Graphs.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  (931-57-198)
- 3:15 p.m.
  A survey of symmetric knots.
  Morwen B Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
  (931-57-86)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Two-Generator Satellite Links.
  Steven A Bleiler, Portland State University
  Amelia C Jones*, Vassar College
  (931-57-67)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Crossing number of thick knots.
  Jonathan K Simon*, University of Iowa
  Gregory R Buck, St. Anselm College
  (931-57-17)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Pseudofree group actions on $S^2 x S^2$.
  Michael P McCooey*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (931-57-344)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 161, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Torsion in the Kauffman bracket skein module of a 3-manifold and use of a homology group and hyperbolic structure in torsion detection.
  J\'ozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (931-57-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Examples of foliation cones.
  John Cantwell*, Saint Louis University
  Lawrence Conlon, Washington University
  (931-57-21)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Genuine laminations and group negative curvature.
  William H. Kazez*, University of Georgia
  David Gabai, California Insitute of Technology
  (931-57-10)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Small Seifert group actions on R .
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  (931-57-45)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 161, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Counting annuli and tori.
  Martin G Scharlemann, UCSB
  Jennifer C Schultens*, Emory University
  (931-57-16)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Annular and boundary reducing Dehn fillings.
  Cameron McA. Gordon*, The University of Texas at Austin
  Ying-Qing Wu, University of Iowa
  (931-57-82)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Extension of incompressible surfaces on the boundary of 3-manifolds.
  Michael Freedman, UCSD
  Hugh Howards, UCSD
  Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
  (931-57-81)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Heegaard diagrams and handlebody groups.
  Feng Luo*, Dept. of Math., Rutgers Univ.
  (931-57-73)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Proof of Arnold's Conjectures About Plane Curves With Double Points.
  Chenghui Luo*, Fraunhofer CRCG, Inc.
  (931-55-11)

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