8:00 a.m. 3-Manifolds, tangles and persistent invariants. Jozef H Przytycki, The George Washington University
Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
(973-57-94)
8:30 a.m. Distance $\ge 3$ Heegaard splittings. John P Hempel*, Rice University
(973-57-1366)
9:00 a.m. On Injective Homomorphisms of Mapping Class Groups. Elmas Irmak*, Michigan State University
(973-57-1372)
9:30 a.m. Topological Symmetry Groups of Graphs Embedded in $S^{3}$. Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
(973-57-716)
10:00 a.m. Seifert Surfaces for Graphs, Planarity, and Associated Links. Simrat M Ghuman*, New York City Technical College, CUNY
(973-57-902)
10:30 a.m. One relator 3-orbifolds. James D Borkowski*, University of Tennessee
(973-57-1316)
2:15 p.m. Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds which contain no Reebless foliation. Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
John Shareshian, Washington University
Melanie Stein, Trinity College
(973-57-384)
2:45 p.m. There are no unexpected tunnel number one knots of genus one. Martin G Scharlemann*, UC Santa Barbara
(973-57-675)
3:15 p.m. Higher-Order Polynomial Invariants of 3-Manifolds Giving Lower Bounds for the Thurston Norm. Shelly L Harvey*, Rice University
(973-57-1197)
3:45 p.m. Break.
4:15 p.m. The orbifold theorem. Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
Craig D Hodgson, University of Melbourne
Steve P Kerckhoff, Stanford
(973-57-369)
4:45 p.m. Trace fields of hyperbolic knots. Jim E Hoste*, Pitzer College
Patrick D Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
(973-57-968)
5:15 p.m. Subgroup Separability of Amalgamated Products of Hyperbolic $3$-Manifolds. Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
(973-57-726)
5:45 p.m. Abelian Subgroups of the Torelli Group. William Vautaw*, Michigan State University
(973-57-1010)
8:00 a.m. Noncommutative Knot Theory. Tim D Cochran*, Rice University
(973-57-1365)
8:30 a.m. On the "Volume" limit of the colored Jones polynomial. Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
(973-57-849)
9:00 a.m. Towers of knots and analytic signatures. Tim D Cochran, Rice University
Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Peter Teichner, University of California, San Diego
(973-57-1393)
9:30 a.m. On knots 2-adjacent to the unknot. Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
(973-57-1401)
1:00 p.m. Reflection Independence and Rigidity in Coxeter Groups. Patrick Bahls*, Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics
Michael L Mihalik, Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics
(973-20-1089)
1:30 p.m. Break.
2:00 p.m. An Intrinsic Geometric Characterization of the $\mathfrak{sec}$ Invariant. Gregory S Clark*, Rice University
(973-57-368)
2:30 p.m. K-Theory and Fundamental Groups. Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
(973-19-1237)
3:00 p.m. Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds. Vyacheslav S Krushkal*, University of Virginia
(973-57-1093)
3:30 p.m. Codimension two PL embeddings of spheres with nonstandard regular neighborhoods. Dusan Repovs*, University of Ljubljana
(973-57-41)
3:50 p.m. Further Examples of Homotopy Inequivalent 2-Complexes at a Non-Minimal Level. Jacqueline A Jensen*, University of Oregon, Eugene
(973-55-801)