AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symmetries of Knots and Three-manifolds
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@math.gwu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Intrinsically Asymmetric 2-colorings of Graphs in $S^{3}$.
  Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
  David L. Li, Pomona College
  (942-57-150)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symmetries of 2-strand string links up to concordance.
  Theodore B Stanford*, United States Naval Academy
  (942-57-184)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Alexander polynomials of equivariant slice knots.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno
  (942-57-27)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quantum Invariants of periodic three-manifolds.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (942-00-104)

Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symmetries of Knots and Three-manifolds
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@math.gwu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Periodicity of homology spheres.
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
  (942-57-198)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Periodic knots and the twisted Alexander polynomials.
  Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada-Reno, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  (942-57-205)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Murakami-Ohtsuki-Okada invariants and periodicity of 3-manifolds.
  Maxim V. Sokolov, Mr.*, George Washington University
  (942-57-199)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Homotopy skein module, dichromatic polynomial and symmetry .
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, GWU
  (942-57-237)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Casson-Walker-Lescop invariant and link invariants.
  Jeff Johannes*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  (942-57-13)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Concordance of Classical Knots.
  Andrius Tamulis*, Monmouth College
  (942-57-20)

Sunday April 11, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symmetries of Knots and Three-manifolds
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@math.gwu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dehn surgeries on knots which yield lens spaces and genera of knots .
  Hiroshi Goda*, University of California at Davis
  Masakazu Teragaito, Hiroshima University
  (942-57-106)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homology of cyclic covers of slice knots.
  Karl A Bloch*, Indiana University
  Davis F James, Indiana University
  (942-57-21)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Periodic Links and Representation Shifts.
  Daniel S Silver*, Univ. of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, Univ. of South Alabama
  (942-57-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Classification of links up to surgery equivalence of second class.
  Fan Ding, Peking University
  Xiao-Song Lin*, UC Riverside
  (942-57-102)

Sunday April 11, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symmetries of Knots and Three-manifolds
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@math.gwu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Translating the involutory Kuperberg invariant into the surgery framework, and relating it to certain symmetries of 3-manifolds.
  Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (942-57-232)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Ordering groups of Pure Braids and Hyperplane Arrangements.
  Djun M. Kim*, The University of British Columbia
  Dale P. Rolfsen, The University of British Columbia
  (942-06-204)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Seifert fibered surgeries on hyperbolic knots.
  Cameron McA. Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  John Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
  (942-57-249)

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