AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 29, 2006 00:28:48

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial patterns in Khovanov type graph homology.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
  Milena D Pabiniak, GWU
  Radmila Sazdanovic, GWU
  (1017-57-222)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Behavior of knot invariants under genus~$2$ mutation.
  Nathan M. Dunfield, California Institute of Technology
  Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Alexander Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  Morwen Thislethwaite, The University of Tennessee
  (1017-57-220)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and The Geometry of Alternating Knots.
  Robert G. Todd*, Universtiy of Iowa
  (1017-00-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discovering torsion in chromatic graph homology.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, George Washington University
  Milena D. Pabiniak, GWU
  Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
  (1017-57-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Introduction to Quandle Algebras.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1017-55-113)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Reidemeister torsion of a 3-dimensional homology sphere at the trivial representation.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1017-57-148)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  Unitary Representations of the Braid Group.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1017-57-153)
- 3:00 p.m.
  p-adic framed braids.
  Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
  Jesus Juyumaya, University of Valparaiso, Chile
  (1017-57-192)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Categorifying the Tutte polynomial and more.
  Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
  E Fanny Jasso-Hernandez, The George Washington University
  (1017-57-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chromatic graph $A_3$ homology from geometric properties of graphs.
  Milena Dorota Pabiniak*, George Washington University, Washington DC
  Jozef H Przytycki, GWU
  Radmila Sazdanovic, GWU
  (1017-57-32)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Kauffman bracket quantization.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  Nikolaos Apostolakis, CUNY New York
  (1017-57-158)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Torus knot complements: A natural series for the natural logarithm.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
  (1017-57-206)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, III
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  Integral TQFTs and applications.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (1017-57-48)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Girth and the Span of the Jones Polynomial.
  Lisa Hernandez*, University of California, Riverside
  Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside
  (1017-54-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On links with cyclotomic Jones polynomials.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
  Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
  (1017-57-147)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Knot polynomials and hyperbolic volume.
  Efstratia Kalfagianni*, Michigan State University
  (1017-57-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and Reidemeister Torsion.
  Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro*, University of Iowa
  (1017-55-101)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Holonomic relations between quantum invariants.
  Adam S. Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
  (1017-57-178)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  Affine Linking Invariants.
  Vladimir V. Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  Yuli B Rudyak, University of Florida Gainesville
  (1017-57-09)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topology and combinatorics of circle orders.
  Catherine L Crockett*, University of California, Riverside
  Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside
  (1017-54-215)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quandles and tangle embeddings.
  Maciej Niebrzydowski*, The George Washington University
  (1017-57-31)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Extension of Knot Groups to Tangles.
  John Armstrong*, Yale University
  (1017-55-16)

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