AMS :: 2011 Spring Western Section Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 7, 2011 00:22:48

Associate secretaries:

Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, I
Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Unlink detection and the Khovanov module.
  Matthew Hedden*, Michigan State University
  Yi Ni, California Institute of Technology
  (1071-57-188)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A spanning tree model for delta-graded knot Floer homology.
  John A Baldwin*, Princeton University
  Adam S Levine, Brandeis University
  (1071-57-48)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conway mutation and alternating links.
  Joshua Evan Greene*, Columbia University
  (1071-57-33)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Knotted tori in $\mathbb{R}^4$ and hypercube diagrams.
  Scott Baldridge*, Louisiana State University
  (1071-57-142)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symplectic surgeries from mapping class group relations.
  Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia
  (1071-57-208)

Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, II
Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The fractal nature of knot concordance.
  Constance Leidy*, Wesleyan University
  Tim Cochran, Rice University
  Shelly Harvey, Rice University
  (1071-57-282)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The significances of links in knot concordance.
  John R Burke*, Wesleyan University
  (1071-57-276)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Knot Concordance and Homology Cobordism.
  Tim D Cochran*, Rice University
  Bridget D Franklin, Rice University
  Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
  Peter D Horn, Columbia University
  (1071-57-251)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Filtering smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots.
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University
  Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
  Peter D. Horn, Columbia University
  (1071-57-252)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mapping tori of self-homotopy equivalences of lens spaces.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
  (1071-57-281)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Concordance of Bing doubles and boundary genus.
  Charles Livingston, Indiana University
  Cornelia A. Van Cott*, University of San Francisco
  (1071-57-96)

Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, III
Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  An SU(n) Casson-Lin invariant for links with n components.
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  Eric Harper, University of Quebec
  (1071-57-211)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Homology cobordism of 3-manifolds and Cheeger-Gromov invariants.
  Jae Choon Cha, Pohang University of Science and Technology
  Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1071-57-280)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of alternating knots.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
  Samuel J. Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
  (1071-57-93)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tangle sums and factorization of A-polynomials.
  Masaharu Ishikawa, Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University
  Thomas W Mattman*, Department of Math, California State University, Chico
  Koya Shimokawa, Department of Mathematics, Saitama University
  (1071-57-187)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Colored Morton-Franks-Williams inequalities.
  Hao Wu*, George Washington University
  (1071-57-47)

Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, IV
Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bar-Natan modules and tunneling graphs.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1071-57-235)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Khovanov Homology on Certain Symmetric Unions.
  T.J. Gaffney*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1071-57-193)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Prime knots whose arc index is smaller than the crossing number.
  Gyo Taek Jin*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  Hwa Jeong Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  (1071-57-217)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Equivalence Classes of Knots and Links of two components in Family 6* modulo 4-moves.
  Noureen Khan*, University of North Texas at Dallas
  M Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas
  (1071-55-52)