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2009 Fall Western Section Meeting
Riverside, CA, November 7-8, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1054

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin

• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, I
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A non-standard interpretation of the Thurston boundary of Teichmuller Space.
    Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
    (1054-03-197)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    If smooth 4-manifolds are puzzling, what are the pieces?
    Ronald A Fintushel, Michigan State University
    Ronald J Stern*, UC Irvine
    (1054-57-234)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The k-width of a knot.
    Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
    J Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
    (1054-57-39)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New from old representations of braid groups.
    Stephen Bigelow*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1054-20-166)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detecting right-veering homeomorphisms of the once-punctured torus.
    Emille Davie*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-57-236)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, II
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Broken fibrations on $4$-manifolds.
    Rob Kirby*, UC Berkeley
    David T. Gay, University of Cape Town
    (1054-57-224)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Skein relations and quantizations of representations of surfaces groups.
    Francis Bonahon*, University of Southern California
    Helen Wong, Carleton College
    (1054-57-159)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Networking Seifert surgeries on knots.
    Arnaud Deruelle, Institute of Natural Sciences, Nihon University
    Katura Miyazaki, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
    Kimihiko Motegi*, Department of Mathematics, Nihon University
    (1054-57-188)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the knot complement problem for non-hyperbolic knots.
    Daniel Matignon*, Université de Provence
    (1054-57-243)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Braid groups and evolution algebras.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, Mathematics Department, the College of William and Mary
    Carolyn Troha, Mathematics Department, the College of William and Mary
    David Lutzer, Mathematics Department, the College of William and Mary
    (1054-17-84)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Girth: Discussions, Comments, and Corrections.
    Lisa Hernandez*, California Baptist University
    (1054-54-174)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, III
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Handle number one links and generalized property $R$.
    Michael John Williams*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-57-281)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Meridionally destabilizing number of knots.
    Toshio Saito*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1054-57-160)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knots with small rational genus.
    Danny Calegari*, California Institute of Technology
    (1054-57-177)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gauge-string duality and the structure of large rank Chern-Simons invariants.
    Dave Auckly*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1054-57-132)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, IV
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    K-theory in condensed matter physics.
    Michael Freedman*, Microsoft Station Q
    (1054-57-306)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Jacobi identity and the A-B slice problem.
    Slava Krushkal*, University of Virginia
    (1054-57-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Denseness and Zariski denseness of Jones braid representations.
    Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
    (1054-16-214)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Genera and degrees of Knots in $\displaystyle{CP^2}$.
    Mohamed Ait Nouh*, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-57-98)

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