AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 141, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University cleidy@wesleyan.edu
Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Fractal Nature of Link Concordance.
  Tim D Cochran*, Mathematics Department, Rice University
  Shelly Harvey, Mathematics Department, Rice University
  Constance Leidy, Mathematics Department, Wesleyan University
  (1042-57-183)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the geography and botany of Ozsvath-Szabo invariants.
  Matthew Hedden*, M.I.T
  (1042-57-230)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent progress in the knot theory of complex plane curves.
  Lee Rudolph*, Clark University, Worcester, MA
  (1042-57-97)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The second rational homology group of the moduli space of curves with level structures.
  Andrew Putman*, MIT
  (1042-55-222)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bounding the stable genera of Heegaard splittings from below.
  Jesse E Johnson*, Yale University
  (1042-57-162)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Knots in the Heisenberg Manifold.
  Prudence Heck*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1042-57-217)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 141, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University cleidy@wesleyan.edu
Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Construction of H-thick knots in Khovanov Homology.
  Andrew W Elliott*, Rice University
  (1042-55-165)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stable Concordance of Links in 3-manifolds.
  Rob Schneiderman*, Lehman College, City University of New York
  (1042-57-213)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Khovanov homology and contact structures.
  Olga Plamenevskaya*, Stony Brook University
  (1042-57-226)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the relationship between the Johnson's invariant and the Turaev-Viro invariants of 3-manifolds.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1042-57-185)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Product Structures for Legendrian Contact Homology.
  G. Civan, Georgia Institute of Technology
  J. Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  P. Koprowski, University of Maryland
  J. Sabloff*, Haverford College
  A. Walker, California Institute of Technology
  (1042-57-147)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Seiberg-Witten Floer homology and symplectic forms on $S^1\times M^3$.
  Cagatay Kutluhan*, Department of Mathematics, the University of Michigan
  Clifford H. Taubes, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
  (1042-57-17)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 141, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University cleidy@wesleyan.edu
Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Broken Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds.
  Denis Auroux*, MIT
  (1042-57-46)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher-order genera of knots.
  Peter D Horn*, Rice University
  (1042-57-98)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Transverse Invariant and Bindings of Open Books.
  David Shea Vela-Vick*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1042-54-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  1-relator grous and Heegaard splittings.
  Joseph Masters*, SUNY Buffalo
  (1042-57-228)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Polygons inscribed in simple closed curves.
  Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
  Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
  John McCleary, Vassar College
  (1042-57-208)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cobordism of surface knots.
  Kent Orr*, Indiana University
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University
  (1042-57-221)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 141, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University cleidy@wesleyan.edu
Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz invariants and homology jumping loci.
  Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
  Alexander I. Suciu*, Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University
  (1042-57-81)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Slices of Planar Lagrangians.
  Phil Eiseman, Haverford College
  Jonathan D. Lima, Haverford College
  Joshua M. Sabloff, Haverford College
  Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
  (1042-57-66)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Topological 4-manifolds with infinite cyclic fundamental group.
  Paul Melvin*, Bryn Mawr College
  S. Friedl, University of Warwick
  I. Hambleton, McMaster University
  P. Teichner, University of California, Berkeley
  (1042-57-223)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Near force-free magnetic fields, contact structures, open book decompositions, and Heegaard-Floer homology.
  P. Robert Kotiuga*, Boston University, ECE Dept.
  (1042-78-197)

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