AMS :: 2011 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 16, 2011 00:22:58

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 9, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological, Geometric, and Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds, I
Rm 118, Beven Hall
Organizers:
David Damiano, College of the Holy Cross
Scott Taylor, Colby College
Helen Wong, Carleton College hwong@carleton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Exceptional Surgeries and Hidden Symmetries.
  Neil R Hoffman*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1070-57-121)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some cubed hyperbolic 2- and 3- manifolds.
  Genevieve S. Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1070-57-242)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Slopes and colored Jones polynomials of adequate knots.
  David Futer*, Temple University
  Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
  Jessica S Purcell, Brigham Young University
  (1070-57-268)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Small hyperbolic polyhedra.
  Shawn Rafalski*, Fairfield University
  (1070-57-118)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Volumes of Hyperbolic Orbifolds.
  Ilesanmi Adeboye*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1070-57-331)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On nonhyperbolic handle number one links.
  Michael John Williams*, University of California, Riverside
  Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
  (1070-57-340)

Saturday April 9, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topological, Geometric, and Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds, II
Rm 118, Beven Hall
Organizers:
David Damiano, College of the Holy Cross
Scott Taylor, Colby College
Helen Wong, Carleton College hwong@carleton.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Classifying primitive/Seifert knots.
  John Berge, Independent
  Brandy Guntel*, The University of Texas at Austin
  Sungmo Kang, UQAM
  (1070-57-70)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Flipping bridge surfaces and bounds on the stable bridge number.
  Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University
  Maggy Tomova*, The University of Iowa
  (1070-57-302)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Common stabilizations of Heegaard splittings.
  Jesse Johnson*, Oklahoma State University
  (1070-57-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Rank versus Genus Conjecture.
  Tao Li*, Boston College
  (1070-57-255)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geometric consequences of algebraic rank in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Ian P Biringer*, Yale University
  Juan Souto, University of Michigan
  (1070-51-205)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Inversive distance circle packings and hyperbolic volume.
  Ren Guo*, University of Minnesota
  (1070-51-330)

Sunday April 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological, Geometric, and Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds, III
Rm 118, Beven Hall
Organizers:
David Damiano, College of the Holy Cross
Scott Taylor, Colby College
Helen Wong, Carleton College hwong@carleton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the categorification of skein modules and algebras.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1070-57-278)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Irreducibility properties of modular representations of mapping class groups arising in TQFT.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  Gregor Masbaum, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
  (1070-57-68)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Torsion, A-polynomial and quantum invariants of knots.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1070-57-310)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Braid Group Representations with Finite Images.
  Jennifer Franko Vasquez*, The University of Scranton
  (1070-54-323)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum Teichmüller theory and conformal field theory.
  Julien Roger*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (1070-57-333)
- 10:30 a.m.
  First steps in coloured knot theory.
  Daniel D Moskovich*, University of Toronto
  (1070-57-162)