Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:14

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Monday January 8, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Handlebodies, I
  Organizers:
  Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University brendle@math.lsu.edu
  William R. Vautaw, Southeastern Louisiana University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Injective Simplicial Maps of the Arc Complex.
    Elmas Irmak, Bowling Green State University
    John D. McCarthy*, Michigan State University
    (1023-57-1146)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms of the disk complex.
    Saul Schleimer*, Rutgers - New Brunswick
    (1023-57-997)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Infinite Presentations of the Torelli Group.
    Andrew Putman*, University of Chicago
    (1023-57-1303)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparing bridge surfaces.
    Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Maggy Tomova*, University of Iowa
    (1023-57-1388)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dimension of Torelli groups.
    Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
    Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
    Dan Margalit*, University of Utah
    (1023-20-533)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of the disk complex of the genus-2 handlebody to knot theory.
    Sangbum Cho, University of Oklahoma
    Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
    (1023-57-301)
• Monday January 8, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Handlebodies, II
  Organizers:
  Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University brendle@math.lsu.edu
  William R. Vautaw, Southeastern Louisiana University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Straightening tube sums.
    Martin Scharlemann*, U. C. Santa Barbara
    (1023-57-670)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Mapping class groups of Heegaard splittings.
    Jesse E Johnson*, Yale University
    Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    (1023-57-921)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On some relations and homology of the Dehn twist quandle.
    Joel Zablow*, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester N.Y.
    (1023-57-553)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some homological properties on a handlebody group.
    Susumu Hirose*, Saga University
    (1023-57-811)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Right-Veering Diffeomorphisms of Bordered Surfaces and the Burau Representation of $B_3$.
    Emille K. Davie*, University of Georgia
    (1023-57-1050)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Heegaard splitting and 3-manifold invariants from the Johnson-Morita homomorphims.
    Joan S. Birman, Columbia University
    Tara E Brendle, Louisiana State University
    Nathan D. Broaddus*, University of Chicago
    (1023-57-1243)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Presentation For The Automorphisms Of The $3$-Sphere That Preserve A Genus Two Heegaard Splitting.
    Erol Akbas*, University of Arkansas
    (1023-57-1033)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Surface homeomorphisms that do not extend to any handlebody.
    Jamie Bradley Jorgensen*, Rice University
    (1023-57-1172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    From handlebodies to closed 3-manifolds: a geometric approach.
    Hossein Namazi*, Princeton University
    (1023-57-945)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A classification of automorphisms of 3--manifolds.
    Leonardo N. Carvalho*, Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil
    Ulrich Oertel, Rutgers University - Newark
    (1023-57-1212)