AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Braids and Knots, I
Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Self-Linking Invariant of Virtual Knots.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1000-57-191)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and Skein Modules.
  Adam S. Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
  Marta M. Asaeda, University of Iowa
  Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
  (1000-57-187)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Kauffman-Harary Conjecture for Montesinos links and closed 3-braids.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  Marta M Asaeda, University of Iowa
  Adam S Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo
  (1000-57-97)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Topology of knot spaces.
  Ryan D Budney*, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
  (1000-57-126)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spanning trees and Khovanov homology.
  Abhijit Champanerkar, University of South Alabama
  Ilya Kofman*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  Oleg Viro, Uppsala University
  (1000-57-171)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mahler measure of Jones Polynomials under twisting.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
  Ilya Kofman, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (1000-57-165)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Braids and Knots, II
Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Almost periodic flows on three-manifolds.
  Kelly Delp*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  (1000-57-75)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Closed Essential Surfaces in the Complements of Large Volume Berge Knots.
  Ken Baker*, The University of Georgia at Athens
  (1000-57-145)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Noncyclic covers of knot complements.
  Nathan Darrell Broaddus*, Cornell University
  (1000-57-112)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Polygonal Links and Crossing Number.
  Rollie Trapp*, California State University, San Bernardino
  (1000-57-91)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Hyperbolic Volume vs. Knot Polynomials.
  Oliver Dasbach*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
  (1000-57-207)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Braids and Knots, III
Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Knots with Unknotting Number 1.
  Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  John E Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
  (1000-57-189)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discretized configuration spaces.
  Aaron D. Abrams*, Emory University and MSRI
  (1000-57-213)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Braid representations and braided tensor categories.
  Imre Tuba*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  (1000-20-223)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Braid Groups on Graphs.
  Lucas A Sabalka*, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Daniel Farley, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1000-20-201)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Three-Eigenvalue Problem and Applications to the Braid Group.
  Eric C Rowell*, Indiana University
  Michael Larsen, Indiana University
  Zhenghan Wang, Indiana University
  (1000-20-90)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Braids and Knots, IV
Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Alexander invariants of line arrangements and great circle links.
  Michael Falk*, Northern Arizona University and MSRI
  (1000-57-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $L^2$--Alexander invariants for knots.
  Weiping Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (1000-58-155)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Towards the computation of the noncommutative A-polynomial of twist knots.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  Fumikazu Nagasato, Kyushu University
  (1000-57-215)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A variation on finite type knot invariants.
  James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Jacob Mostovoy, Instituto de Matematicas (Unidad Cuernavaca) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  Ted Stanford, New Mexico State University
  (1000-57-81)

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