AMS :: 2012 Spring Central Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 7, 2012 00:21:51

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, I
Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 4:00 p.m.
  Projective Representations of Mapping Classes of Surfaces coming from the Kauffman bracket.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Michael Fitzpatrick, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Brtoszynska, The National Science Foundation
  (1081-57-06)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computing 4-move invariants.
  Robert Todd*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  (1081-57-64)
- 5:30 p.m.
  An invariant for handlebody-tangles.
  Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  (1081-57-92)
- 6:00 p.m.
  On torsion in the Khovanov homology of knots.
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1081-57-401)
- 6:30 p.m.
  Khovanov homology for knotted webs.
  David A Clark*, Randolph-Macon College
  Scott Morrison, UC Berkeley
  Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q
  (1081-57-360)

Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, II
Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 8:00 a.m.
  Proof of a stronger version of the AJ conjecture for torus knots.
  Anh T Tran*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1081-57-40)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Satellites of Legendrian knots and representations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra.
  Lenhard Ng, Duke University
  Dan Rutherford*, University of Arkansas
  (1081-57-112)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A categorification of the Tutte polynomial.
  Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
  Adam Lowrance*, University of Iowa
  (1081-57-75)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Vassiliev Invariants of Virtual Legendrian Knots.
  Patricia Cahn*, Dartmouth College
  Asa Levi, Dartmouth College
  (1081-57-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Virtual 2-knots and 2-links.
  Jonathan Schneider*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1081-57-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Finite-Type Invariants of Classical and Virtual Knots.
  Lena Folwaczny*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (1081-54-256)

Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, III
Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2:30 p.m.
  Minimal Diagrams of Free Knots.
  Allison Henrich*, Seattle University
  Tom Boothby, Simon Fraser University
  Alexander Leaf, Princeton University
  (1081-57-54)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Combinatorics of Smoothing.
  Micah W. Chrisman*, Monmouth University
  (1081-55-07)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized Parity.
  Heather A Dye*, O'Fallon
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University
  (1081-57-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Preordered quandles.
  Maciej Niebrzydowski*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (1081-06-192)

Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, IV
Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  On a family of extension quandles associated with pointed abelian groups.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  W. Edwin Clark, USF
  Mohamed Elhamdadi, USF
  Xiang-dong Hou, USF
  Timothy Yeatman, USF
  (1081-57-176)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quantum Enhancements of Involutory Rack Counting Invariants.
  Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1081-57-79)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Parity Biquandles.
  Aaron Kaestner*, North Park University
  Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois - Chicago
  (1081-54-70)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Every group is a distributive set in a monoid of binary operations.
  Gregory T Mezera*, George Washington University
  (1081-55-361)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetric group actions on webs.
  Heather M. Russell*, University of Southern California
  Matthew Housley, BYU
  Julianna S. Tymoczko, Smith College
  (1081-57-51)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Torsion in one term distributive homology.
  Alissa Crans, LMU
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UG
  Krzysztof Putyra, Columbia University
  (1081-57-209)