AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

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

2010 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Newark, NJ, May 22-23, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1060

• 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)