AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2009 00:27:58

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday April 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, I
Room 314, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Nathan M. Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nmd@uiuc.edu
John B. Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Open books and cabling.
  John B Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1048-57-78)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The self-linking number for braids in $L(k,1)$.
  Keiko Kawamuro, The Institute for Advanced Study
  Elena Pavelescu*, Rice University
  (1048-57-215)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Transverse Invariants and Bindings of Open Books.
  David Shea Vela-Vick*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1048-57-225)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Knot contact homology and string topology.
  Lenhard Ng*, Duke University
  (1048-57-110)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Normal rulings of Legendrian knots.
  Dan Rutherford*, Duke University
  (1048-51-149)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, II
Room 314, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Nathan M. Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nmd@uiuc.edu
John B. Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
- 2:30 p.m.
  A connection between Khovanov- and Heegaard Floer-type homology theories.
  J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Columbia University
  Stephan Wehrli, Université Paris 7 (Denis Diderot)
  (1048-51-257)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Knot theory and algebraic curves in subcritical Stein domains.
  Matthew E Hedden*, M.I.T
  (1048-57-86)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Capping off open books and the Ozsv{á}th-Szab{ó} contact invariant.
  John A Baldwin*, Princeton University
  (1048-57-113)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Putting bordered Floer homology in its place.
  Robert Lipshitz*, Columbia University
  Peter Ozsvath, Columbia University
  Dylan Thurston, Columbia University
  (1048-57-41)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, III
Room 314, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Nathan M. Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nmd@uiuc.edu
John B. Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
- 8:00 a.m.
  A categorification of the $SU(2)$ Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of links in $S^2 \times S^1$.
  Lev Rozansky*, University of North Carolina
  Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  (1048-57-307)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quantum invariants of random Heegaard splittings.
  Nathan Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Helen Wong*, Bowdoin College
  (1048-57-224)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Khovanov width of twisted links and closed 3-braids.
  Adam Lowrance*, Louisiana State University
  (1048-57-108)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $L^2$-torsion, Mahler measure, and homology growth.
  Thang Le*, Georgia Insitute of Technology
  (1048-57-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Thin Position of knots and 3-manifolds.
  Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
  Jennifer Schultens, UC Davis
  (1048-57-114)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org