Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:58

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Sunday - Wednesday)
Meeting #1035

• Wednesday January 9, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, Bridge Positions, and Low Dimensional Topology, I
  Organizers:
  Jesse Johnson, Yale University jessee.johnson@yale.edu
  Abigail A. Thompson, University of California Davis
  Robin Wilson, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The width complex for knots and 3-manifolds.
    Jennifer Schultens*, UC Davis
    (1035-57-198)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Studying knots via c-compressions.
    Maggy Tomova*, Rice University
    (1035-57-938)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Classification of Spanning Surfaces for Alternating Knots and Links.
    Colin C Adams*, Williams College
    Thomas Kindred, University of California-Santa Barbara
    (1035-57-1562)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Circular thin position for 3-manifolds.
    Fabiola Manjarrez-Gutierrez*, University of California, Davis
    (1035-57-603)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stabilization and amalgamation of Heegaard splittings.
    Ryan Derby-Talbot*, The American University in Cairo
    (1035-57-851)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Counterexamples to the Stabilization Conjecture.
    David C Bachman*, Pitzer College
    (1035-57-166)
• Wednesday January 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, Bridge Positions, and Low Dimensional Topology, II
  Organizers:
  Jesse Johnson, Yale University jessee.johnson@yale.edu
  Abigail A. Thompson, University of California Davis
  Robin Wilson, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Lower bounds for the distance of a Heegaard splitting.
    John Hempel*, Rice University
    (1035-57-1669)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Heegaard splittings of amalgamated 3-manifolds and distance in the curve complex.
    Tao Li*, Boston College
    (1035-57-833)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Constructing knot tunnels using giant steps.
    Sangbum Cho, University of Oklahoma
    Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
    (1035-57-811)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bridge numbers of tunnel number one knots.
    Sangbum Cho*, University of Oklahoma
    Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
    (1035-57-973)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Surface Homeomorphisms That do not Extend to any Handlebody and the Johnson Filtration.
    Jamie B. Jorgensen*, Rice University
    (1035-57-194)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random Heegaard Splittings.
    Joseph Maher*, Oklahoma State
    (1035-57-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finiteness properties of 3-manifolds related by non-zero degree maps.
    J Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
    M. Boileau,
    S. Wang,
    (1035-57-1985)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Curvature bounds for strongly irreducible Heegaard surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    William Breslin*, University of California at Davis
    (1035-57-1810)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Creating small Seifert fiber spaces by Dehn surgery on knots in $S^3$.
    Kenneth Baker*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
    John Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
    (1035-57-573)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Lens space surgeries and tunnel number one knots.
    Michael J. Williams*, University of California, Davis
    (1035-57-1401)