AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 29, 2010 00:46:48

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

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday May 22, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, I
Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
- 11:00 a.m.
  Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants: Part 1.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
  Adam M Lowrance, University of Iowa
  (1060-57-96)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants: Part 2.
  Oliver T Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  Adam M Lowrance*, University of Iowa
  (1060-57-97)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Cube Diagrams: The Topology and Geometry of Knots in Three Dimensions.
  Scott Baldridge*, Louisiana State University
  Adam Lowrance, University of Iowa
  (1060-57-220)
- 12:30 p.m.
  The theory of classical theta functions from a topological perspective.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  (1060-57-117)

Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, II
Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
- 4:00 p.m.
  Continuous Quandles and Knot Homology theories.
  Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (1060-57-60)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The second quandle homology of the Takasaki quandle of an odd abelian group is an exterior square of the group.
  Maciej Niebrzydowski, UL at Lafayette
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and U.T. at Dallas
  (1060-57-253)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the relationship between sutured Khovanov homology and sutured Floer homology.
  Stephan M. Wehrli*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley)
  J. Elisenda Grigsby, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley) / Boston College
  (1060-57-248)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Link Floer homology via bordered sutured Floer homology.
  Rumen Zarev*, Columbia University
  (1060-57-192)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Bordered Heegaard Floer homology and the $\tau$-invariant of cable knots.
  Jennifer Hom*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1060-57-188)
- 6:30 p.m.
  A 2-category of dotted cobordisms and odd link homologies with parameters.
  Krzysztof Putyra*, Columbia University
  (1060-57-252)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, III
Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Adventures in categorification.
  Mikhail Khovanov*, Columbia University
  (1060-57-169)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Graphical calculus of Soergel bimodules in Khovanov-Rozansky link homology.
  Daniel Krasner*, MSRI
  Ben Elias, Columbia Univeristy
  (1060-57-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Link cohomology and extended TQFTs.
  Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  (1060-57-134)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Homologically $\mathbb{Z}_2$-thin knots have no 4-torsion in Khovanov homology.
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1060-57-237)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, IV
Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generic deformations of the colored sl(N)-homology for links.
  Hao Wu*, George Washington University
  (1060-57-119)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The topology of two-row Springer varieties.
  Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
  (1060-57-203)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A categorification of the polynomial ring.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  (1060-18-246)