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

Friday March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifold Invariants, I
Room 203, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Twisted Alexander polynomials, metabelian representations, and the knot slicing problem.
  Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno
  Paul Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Charles Livingston*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1037-57-201)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Surgery description of colored knots.
  Richard A. Litherland, LSU
  Steven D. Wallace*, LSU
  (1037-57-06)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Kauffman bracket skein module of surgery on a (2,2n) torus link.
  John M Harris*, University of Southern Mississippi
  (1037-57-340)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The $(n)$-Solvable Filtration of the Knot Concordance Group.
  Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
  Tim Cochran, Rice University
  Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University
  (1037-57-353)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Higher-order genera of knots.
  Peter D Horn*, Rice University
  (1037-57-236)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Twisting quasi-alternating links.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
  Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (1037-57-192)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifold Invariants, II
Room 100, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Commensurability and commensurability invariants.
  Walter D Neumann*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (1037-57-379)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Tutte polynomial in knot theory.
  Iain Moffatt*, University of Waterloo
  (1037-57-281)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Duality of graphs on surfaces and Thistlethwaite's type theorems.
  Sergei V Chmutov*, The Ohio State University, Mansfield
  (1037-57-329)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Invariants of graphs on surfaces.
  Ilya Kofman*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Abhijit Champanerkar, University of South Alabama
  Neal Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
  (1037-57-327)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifold Invariants, III
Room 100, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Link Homology and Network TQFTs.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (1037-57-191)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Towards Naive Categorification of the Skein $sl_N$ Polynomials.
  Alexander N Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  Oleg Viro, SUNY Stony Brook and St. Petersburg Branch of Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
  (1037-57-367)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Torsion in Khovanov homology of semi-adequate links.
  Radmila Sazdanovi\'c*, The George Washington University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
  (1037-57-266)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Constructing Links with the Same Invariants.
  Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
  Kerry Luse, The George Washington University
  (1037-57-224)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Jones polynomial and hyperbolic geometry.
  David Futer, Michigan State University
  Effie Kalfagianni*, Michigan State University
  Jessica Purcell, Brigham Young University
  (1037-57-364)
- 5:30 p.m.
  State sum invariants of surface immersions.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1037-57-249)

Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifold Invariants, IV
Room 100, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  An Extended Bracket State Summation for Virtual Knots and Links.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1037-57-29)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hirzebruch-type invariants from iterated p-covers and slicing iterated Bing doubles.
  Jae Choon Cha*, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
  (1037-57-323)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The reduced Kauffman bracket skein algebra of the torus has a unique irreducible representation.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  (1037-57-53)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Density of the SO(3) quantum invariants for three-manifolds.
  Helen M. Wong*, Bowdoin College
  (1037-57-220)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Gram determinant of the type B Temperley-Lieb algebra and the determinant of the matrix of chromatic joins.
  Qi Chen, Winston-Salem State University
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (1037-57-310)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The $I_{p}$ quantum invariant of Periodic 3-manifolds.
  Khaled Moham Qazaqzeh*, Yarmouk University
  (1037-57-314)

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