2011 Fall Central Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 23, 2011 00:29:39

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

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
- 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)