AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday March 29, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Knot Theory: Quandle Theory and Categorified Knot Invariants, I
Room 101, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Generalized quandle homology theory and applications.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi*, Univ of South Florida
  Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Matias Grana, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Masahico Saito, Univ of South Florida
  (1037-57-136)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Minimal Number of Fox Colors and Quandle Cocycle Invariants of Knots.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (1037-57-89)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Sample computations in self-distributive algebras.
  J Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1037-18-116)
- 10:30 a.m.
  2-Quandles.
  Alissa S Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
  Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
  (1037-18-108)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Knot Theory: Quandle Theory and Categorified Knot Invariants, II
Room 101, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finding non-zero maps between isomorphism classes of tangles.
  Robert G. Todd*, University of Nebraska Omaha
  (1037-55-263)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Clock States and Categorification of the Alexander Polynomial.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1037-57-30)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Bar-Natan skein module and (n.n) Springer varieties.
  Heather M. Russell*, University of Iowa
  (1037-57-298)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A note on mutation and Khovanov homology.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
  Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (1037-57-193)
- 5:00 p.m.
  An extension of Khovanov homology for links embedded in I-bundles.
  Jeffrey Boerner*, University of Iowa
  (1037-57-253)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The categorification of Birman-Lin theorem.
  Nadya Shirokova*, Stanford
  (1037-57-254)

Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Knot Theory: Quandle Theory and Categorified Knot Invariants, III
Room 101, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Virtual cocycle invariants.
  Sam Nelson*, Pomona College
  Jose Ceniceros, Whittier College
  (1037-57-56)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology.
  Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  (1037-57-227)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Relations and homology of the Dehn twist quandle.
  Joel Zablow*, Rochester Institute of Technology
  (1037-57-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the fundamental quandles of the long and closed trefoil knots.
  Maciej Niebrzydowski*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (1037-57-290)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Polynomial Cocycles and Higher Homology Groups of Alexander Quandles.
  Kheira Ameur*, University of South Florida
  (1037-55-270)

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