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2011 Fall Central Section Meeting
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
October 14-16, 2011 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1074
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Invariants in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology
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Friday October 14, 2011, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, I
Room 109, Avery Hall
Organizers:
Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mbrittenham2@math.unl.edu
Robert Todd, University of Nebraska-Omaha rtodd@unomaha.edu
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4:00 p.m.
Width is not additive.
Ryan Blair, University of Pennsylvania
Maggy Tomova*, The University of Iowa
(1074-57-242) -
4:30 p.m.
A categorification of the Tutte polynomial.
Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
Adam Lowrance*, University of Iowa
(1074-57-196) -
5:00 p.m.
Right-veering automorphisms of surfaces and overtwisted contact structures.
Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
(1074-57-224) -
5:30 p.m.
Cosmetic surgery on links and the link volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Yo'av Rieck*, University of Arkansas
Yasushi Yamashita, Nara Women's University
(1074-57-151)
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4:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, II
Room 109, Avery Hall
Organizers:
Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mbrittenham2@math.unl.edu
Robert Todd, University of Nebraska-Omaha rtodd@unomaha.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Rogers-Ramanujan type identities coming from the colored Jones polynomial.
Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
Cody Armond, Louisiana State University
(1074-57-268) -
9:30 a.m.
Open book foliations and contact manifolds.
Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
(1074-57-113) -
10:00 a.m.
The Kauffman polynomial and trivalent graphs.
Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
James Tipton, The University of Iowa
(1074-57-45) -
10:30 a.m.
Minimal triangulations for infinite families of 3--manifolds.
William H. Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University
Stephan Tillmann, University of Queensland
(1074-57-162)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 15, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, III
Room 109, Avery Hall
Organizers:
Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mbrittenham2@math.unl.edu
Robert Todd, University of Nebraska-Omaha rtodd@unomaha.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Combinatorial Floer Homology for Spatial Graphs.
Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
Danielle O'Donnol, Smith College
(1074-57-166) -
3:00 p.m.
Bridge Numbers and Integral Surgery.
Kenneth L. Baker*, University of Miami
Cameron Gordon, University of Texas
John Luecke, University of Texas
(1074-57-237) -
3:30 p.m.
Complements of line arrangements in the complex projective plane.
Kristopher Williams*, Doane College
(1074-55-78) -
4:00 p.m.
Guts of surfaces and the colored Jones polynomial.
David Futer, Temple University
Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
Jessica S Purcell*, Brigham Young University
(1074-57-134)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 16, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, IV
Room 109, Avery Hall
Organizers:
Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mbrittenham2@math.unl.edu
Robert Todd, University of Nebraska-Omaha rtodd@unomaha.edu
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8:30 a.m.
On the AJ Conjecture.
Thang LE*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Anh TRAN, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1074-57-69) -
9:00 a.m.
Generalized Alexander Polynomials for Virtual Knots.
Alissa S Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
(1074-57-323) -
9:30 a.m.
Twisted Virtual Biracks.
Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
(1074-57-121) -
10:00 a.m.
Smoothed Parity Invariants.
Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
(1074-57-92) -
10:30 a.m.
Projective representations of the mapping class Groups of surfaces coming from extended TQFT.
Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
Michael C Fitzpatrick, The University of Iowa
Joann Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
(1074-57-68)
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8:30 a.m.
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