AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:25

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

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

Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Links, I
Room 101, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2:30 p.m.
  Homology of Takasaki quandles.
  Maciej Niebrzydowski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (1053-57-152)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-involutory connected quandle extensions with good involutions.
  J Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1053-57-270)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Reidemeister Torsion and the A-polynomial.
  Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
  (1053-57-77)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quandles for Virtual and Higher Dimensional Knots.
  K. Blake Winter*, SUNY University at Buffalo
  (1053-55-144)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A topological construction for all two-row Springer Varieties.
  Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
  (1053-57-216)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Links, II
Room 115, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Structures Derived from Foams.
  J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (1053-57-137)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Graph-based methods establishing nontriviality of state cycle Khovanov homology classes.
  Andrew Elliott*, Rice University
  (1053-57-43)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the filtered sl(2) foam cohomology for links.
  Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  (1053-57-250)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A colored $\mathfrak{sl}(N)$-homology for links in $S^3$.
  Hao Wu*, The George Washington University
  (1053-57-79)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Categorification of the Arrow Polynomial.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1053-57-161)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Links, III
Room 115, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2:30 p.m.
  Boundary value Khovanov homology.
  Oleg Viro*, IMS, Stony Brook University, NY
  (1053-57-242)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Kamada--Miyazawa polynomial and ribbon graphs.
  Sergei Chmutov*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
  (1053-57-202)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Group enhancements of counting invariants.
  Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1053-55-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pseudodiagrams of classical and virtual knots.
  Allison K Henrich*, Seattle University
  (1053-57-74)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Embedding tangles in knots and quandle cocycle invariants.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida
  (1053-57-199)

Sunday November 1, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Links, IV
Room 115, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bounds on Mosaic Knots.
  Heather A. Dye*, McKendree University
  (1053-57-252)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Jones polynomials of closed braids with a full twist.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (1053-57-300)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Skein modules and bordism functors.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1053-57-255)

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