AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 17, 2010 00:33:02

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2010 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, October 9-10, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1063

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

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Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory

• Saturday October 9, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, I
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curves on surfaces and Kauffman bracket state sums.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (1063-57-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An action of the symmetric group on $\mathfrak{su}_3$ Khovanov homology.
    David A Clark*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1063-57-47)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, II
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Categorifications of the Arrow Polynomial for Virtual Knots and Links.
    Louis Hirsch Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-57-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    sl(n) link homology.
    Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1063-57-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Khovanov homology of virtual knots.
    Aaron Kaestner*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-54-191)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A dimer model for the twisted Alexander polynomial.
    Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
    Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    (1063-57-249)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, III
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The second quandle homology of the Takasaki quandle of an even abelian groups.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1063-57-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Categorical Quandles and Knots I: Definitions and Examples.
    Alissa S Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1063-18-132)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Categorical quandles and knots, II -- the fundamental $2$-quandle and colorings.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1063-57-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Categorical quandles and knots, III -- the fundamental 2-quandle and colorings.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Alissa S Crans, Loyola University Marymount
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1063-57-209)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rack modules and (t,s)-racks.
    Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1063-57-211)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, IV
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Network Topological Field Theory and Representations of Web Groups.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (1063-57-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Kauffman bracket skein module of $T^3$.
    Jeffrey Boerner*, Westminster College
    (1063-57-254)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Which invariants of surfaces come from TQFT?
    Paul H Drube*, The University of Iowa
    (1063-57-223)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Functorification via SLarcs.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, University of Pennsylvania
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1063-18-225)

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