Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:14

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Thursday January 8, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometry, Algebra, and Topology of Character Varieties
  Wilson Room C, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Sean Lawton, Instituto Superior Tecnico slawton@math.ist.utl.pt
  Elisha Peterson, United States Military Academy
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Metabelian SL(n,C) representations of knot groups.
    Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
    Stefan Friedl, University of Warwick
    (1046-57-1240)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Characteristic subsurfaces, character varieties and Dehn fillings.
    Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Steve Boyer, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Peter B Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Xingru Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo
    (1046-57-1507)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    3-manifolds whose character varieties are not Lagrangian.
    S Adam Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
    (1046-53-1081)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bers slices are Zariski dense.
    David Dumas*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Richard P. Kent, Brown University
    (1046-30-1260)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Deformations of maximal representations in the real symplectic group.
    Steven Bradlow, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois
    Oscar Garcia-Prada, CSIC, Madrid
    Peter Gothen*, Centro de Matematica da Universidade do Porto
    (1046-14-441)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ergodicity of subgroups of mapping class groups on $\mathsf{SU}(2)$-character varieties.
    William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland
    Eugene Z. Xia, National Center for Theoretical Science (South), National Cheng-Kung University
    (1046-57-1191)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of the modular group action on certain character varieties of the two generator free group.
    William M. Goldman, University of Maryland College Park
    Greg McShane, Laboratoire Emile Picard Universite Paris Paul Sabatier, France
    George Stantchev, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modelling, University of Maryland College Park, USA
    Ser P. Tan*, National University of Singapore
    (1046-57-752)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of SL(2,C) character varieties of surface groups and the action of the Torelli group.
    Georgios D. Daskalopoulos, Brown University
    Richard A. Wentworth*, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland
    (1046-32-1208)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The topology of the moduli of free group representations.
    Sean Lawton*, University of Maryland
    Carlos Florentino, Instituto Superior Tecnico
    (1046-14-749)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Trace Diagram Recurrences and Central Functions of SL(2,C)-Character Varieties.
    Elisha Peterson*, United States Military Academy (West Point)
    Sean Lawton, Instituto Superior Técnico
    (1046-14-1394)