AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:59

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 24, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Constructing horizontal and vertical compositions in cobordism and tangle double categories.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State Univeristy
  Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Univerity of Kiev
  (943-57-172)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Positive links are strongly quasipositive.
  Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
  (943-57-127)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Non-trivial Invariants of Knotted Surfaces.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  Daniel Jelsovsky, University of South Florida
  Seiichi Kamada, Osaka City University
  Laurel Langford, University of Wisconsin at River Falls
  Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
  (943-57-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coloring Virtual Knots and Links.
  Daniel S. Silver*, Univ. of South Alabama
  Susan G. Williams, Univ. of South Alabama
  (943-57-120)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Ordering groups of pure braids and hyperplane arrangements.
  Dale P. Rolfsen*, Univ. of BC
  Djun M Kim, Univ. of BC
  (943-55-22)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Continuous Fraction expansions for Surface Diffeomorphisms.
  Klaus Johannson*, University of Tennessee
  (943-57-117)

Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Improper group actions and duality.
  John Meier*, Lafayette College
  Kenneth S. Brown, Cornell University
  (943-20-131)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A contribution of U(1)-reducible connections to the colored Jones polynomial and p-adic properties of quantum invariants.
  Lev Rozansky*, Yale University
  (943-57-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $n$-string Tangles.
  John W Emert*, Ball State University
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
  (943-57-16)
- 4:00 p.m.
  q-homotopy skein module of 3-manifolds; properties and applications.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
  (943-57-148)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Brunnian braids and links, n-triviality, and group commutators.
  Theodore B Stanford*, United States Naval Academy
  (943-57-129)

Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, III
Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Kauffman Bracket Skein Module at 4th Root of Unity.
  Adam S Sikora*, UMCP and SUNY Buffalo
  (943-57-167)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The subgroup separable property in the braid groups.
  Oliver T Dasbach, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat
  Brian S Mangum*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (943-57-158)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Group actions on order trees.
  Rachel Roberts, Washington University at St Louis
  Melanie Stein*, Trinity College
  (943-57-87)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Results on Thin Position.
  Curtis Feist*, Marshall University
  (943-57-98)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Extension of incompressible surfaces on the boundaries of 3-manifolds .
  Michael Freedman, UCSD, Microsoft
  Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
  Wu Ying-Qing, University of Iowa
  (943-57-134)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Combinatorial Decomposition of Chinese Characters.
  Michael E. McDaniel*, Aquinas College
  (943-57-60)

Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Knots in non-Haken 3-Manifolds.
  Marc Culler*, AMS
  (943-57-171)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein module.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (943-57-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The A-polynomial from the Noncommutative Viewpoint.
  Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Razvan Gelca, The University of Michigan
  Walter LoFaro, Boise State University
  (943-57-54)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Contact Structures On 3-Manifolds That Fiber Over $S^1$.
  Andrew P Lewis*, UC Berkeley
  (943-57-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Constructing tight contact 3-manifolds.
  John B. Etnyre, Stanford
  Robert W. Ghrist*, Geogia Institute of Technology
  (943-58-29)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A dynamics proof that Alexander polynomials multiply under connected sums .
  Michael C Sullivan*, Southern Illinois University
  (943-58-09)

Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, V
Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Casson-Walker-Lescop Invariant and Link Invariants.
  Jeff Johannes*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  (943-57-18)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Casson-Walker invariant for double covers of rational homology 3-spheres.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
  (943-57-37)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Comparison among finite type 3-manifold invariants.
  Stavros Garoufalidis*, Harvard University
  Michael Polyak, Tel Aviv University
  Mikhal Goussarov, POMI, St. Petersburg, Russia
  (943-57-88)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite-type invariants, Massey products and the Johnson homomorphism.
  Jerome P Levine*, Brandeis University
  Stavros Garoufalidis, Harvard University
  (943-57-103)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Norm duality and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Steven P Boyer*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
  Xingru Zhang, SUNY Buffalo
  (943-57-119)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Simple Points Of Character Varieties Of 3-Manifolds.
  Steven Boyer, UQAM
  Xingru Zhang*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (943-57-38)

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