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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046
Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
AMS Special Session on Teichmüller Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology
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Tuesday January 6, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Teichmüller Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Balcony A, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
Organizers:
Richard P. Kent, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
Madlena Tomova, University of Iowa mtomova@math.uiowa.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Surface subgroups of doubles of free groups.
Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
Henry Wilton, University of Texas at Austin
(1046-57-675)
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8:30 a.m.
Finiteness Theorems for Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
Ian Biringer*, University of Chicago
Juan Souto, University of Michigan
(1046-51-310)
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9:00 a.m.
Natural Volumes on Character Varieties of Three-Manifolds.
Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
Kania-Bartoszynska, Naitonal Science Foundation
(1046-57-130)
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9:30 a.m.
The Local Topology of Deformation Spaces of Kleinian Surface Groups.
Aaron D Magid*, University of Michigan
(1046-51-281)
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10:00 a.m.
Reducible and toroidal Dehn filling with distance 3.
Sungmo Kang*, The University of Texas at Austin
(1046-57-56)
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10:30 a.m.
Complex projective structures with Schottky holonomy.
Shinpei Baba*, UC Davis
(1046-51-368)
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11:00 a.m.
Heegaard surfaces and the distance of amalgamation.
Tao Li*, Boston College
(1046-57-202)
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Tuesday January 6, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Teichmüller Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Balcony A, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
Organizers:
Richard P. Kent, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
Madlena Tomova, Rice University mt2@rice.edu
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1:00 p.m.
A normal surface calculus for Heegaard splittings.
Jesse E Johnson*, Yale University
(1046-57-825)
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1:30 p.m.
Asymptotics of Weil-Petersson geodesics.
J. Brock*, Brown University
H. Masur, University of Chicago
Y. Minsky, Yale University
(1046-51-1311)
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2:00 p.m.
Uniform uniform exponential growth of subgroups of the mapping class group.
Johanna Mangahas*, University of Michigan
(1046-51-362)
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2:30 p.m.
Topological index theory for isotopy classes of surfaces.
David C Bachman*, Pitzer College
(1046-57-139)
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3:00 p.m.
A compactification for the space of singular Euclidean metrics on a surface.
Kasra Rafi*, University of Oklahoma
Moon Duchin, University of Michigan
Christopher Leininger, UIUC
(1046-51-188)
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3:30 p.m.
Surgery on a knot in (surface)x(I).
Martin Scharlemann, UCSB
Abigail Thompson*, UC Davis
(1046-57-932)
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4:00 p.m.
Geometry of splittings and models.
Hossein Namazi*, University of Texas at Austin
(1046-57-390)
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