AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

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

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

Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- 10:00 a.m.
  Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Representation Shifts.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  (1060-57-185)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Alexander-Lin Twisted Polynomials.
  Daniel S. Silver, University of South Alabama
  Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (1060-57-196)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The combinatorics of the domain of discontinuity.
  Genevieve S. Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1060-57-183)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Higher-order signature cocycles for subgroups of the mapping class group.
  Peter D Horn*, Columbia University
  Tim D Cochran, Rice University
  Shelly L Harvey, Rice University
  (1060-57-197)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Random Heegaard splittings.
  Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
  (1060-57-61)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- 4:00 p.m.
  Indicatrices and Superinvariants of Knots.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  Dan Collins, Cornell University
  Katherine Hawkins, Williams College
  Charmaine Sia, MIT
  Robert Silversmith, Williams College
  Bena Tshishiku, Washington and Lee University
  (1060-57-158)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Character varieties of a family of 2-bridge knot complements.
  Ronald van Luijk, Universiteit Leiden
  Melissa Macasieb*, Univeristy of Maryland
  Kathleen Petersen, Florida State University
  (1060-57-147)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Polynomial and contact invariants of links in lens spaces.
  Christopher R Cornwell*, Michigan State University
  (1060-54-83)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Toward an Arithmetic theory of Chekhov-Fock Algebras.
  Neal W. Stoltzfus*, Dept. of Math., Louisiana State University
  (1060-57-150)
- 6:30 p.m.
  The W-Polynomial and the Mahler Measure of the Kauffman Bracket.
  Robert Todd*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  (1060-57-25)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, III
Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the Hyperbolic Gluing Equations and Representations of Fundamental Groups of Closed $3$-Manifolds.
  Tian Yang*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (1060-57-122)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds.
  Ilesanmi Adeboye*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1060-57-30)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the volume and Chern-Simons invariant.
  Christian Krogager Zickert*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1060-57-186)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Knots with long unknotting tunnels.
  Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
  David Futer*, Temple University
  Jessica S Purcell, Brigham Young University
  (1060-57-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Margulis numbers for Haken manifolds.
  Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1060-57-222)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Do norm minimizing surfaces remain norm minimizing after filling?
  David Gabai*, Princeton University
  (1060-57-94)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the monodromy maps of certain fibered twisted torus knots.
  Joan Birman*, Columbia University
  Peter Brinkmann, The City College of New York, CUNY
  Keiko Kawamuro, University of Iowa
  (1060-57-115)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Invariants of psedo-Anosov maps.
  Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
  (1060-57-172)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow Representations of the Braid Groups via Quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_2$.
  Craig Jackson*, Ohio Wesleyan University
  Thomas Kerler, Ohio State University
  (1060-81-11)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Walks Along Braids and the Colored Jones Polynomial.
  Cody Armond*, Louisiana State University
  (1060-57-86)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the cube number of a knot.
  Ben McCarty*, Louisiana State University
  (1060-57-242)
- 5:30 p.m.
  analytic link theory in a complex surface singularity link.
  Anne Pichon*, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
  (1060-32-234)