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2012 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
March 10-11, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1079
Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology
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Saturday March 10, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 1300, Business Administration Building (BSN)
Organizers:
Peter Horn, Columbia University pdhorn@math.columbia.edu
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University
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8:00 a.m.
A product on prime alternating knots, and the colored Jones polynomial.
Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
Cody Armond, Louisiana State University
(1079-57-431) -
8:30 a.m.
Adequate Knots and the Colored Jones Polynomial.
Cody Armond*, Louisiana State University
Oliver T Dasbach, Louisiana State University
(1079-57-420) -
9:00 a.m.
Generalized Hecke Algebras with Applications to Knot Theory.
Benjamin J Cooper*, University of Virginia
(1079-55-324) -
9:30 a.m.
Constructions of symplectic 4-manifolds via local Lefschetz fibrations.
Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia
(1079-57-417) -
10:00 a.m.
Toric Structures on Symplectic Bundles of Projective Spaces.
Andrew Fanoe*, Columbia University
(1079-53-209) -
10:30 a.m.
Essential open book foliation.
Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
Tetsuya Ito, University of Tokyo
(1079-57-152)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 10, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 1300, Business Administration Building (BSN)
Organizers:
Peter Horn, Columbia University pdhorn@math.columbia.edu
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University
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2:30 p.m.
Filtering Smooth Concordance classes of Topologically Slice Knots.
Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
Tim Cochran, Rice University
Peter Horn, Columbia University
(1079-57-374) -
3:00 p.m.
Classification of 0-solvable links.
Taylor E Martin*, Rice University
(1079-57-409) -
3:30 p.m.
Computing first order signatures and making a construction of Cochran-Harvey-Leidy explicit.
Christopher William Davis*, Rice University
(1079-57-407) -
4:00 p.m.
Smith Inequalities for Knot Floer Homology of Branched Double Covers.
Kristen Hendricks*, Columbia University
(1079-53-141) -
4:30 p.m.
An obstruction to knots bounding Mobius bands in $B^4$.
M Kate Kearney*, Lousiana State University
(1079-57-334) -
5:00 p.m.
Bridge splittings, the pants complex, and hyperbolic volume.
Alexander M Zupan*, University of Iowa
(1079-57-230)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday March 11, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 1300, Business Administration Building (BSN)
Organizers:
Peter Horn, Columbia University pdhorn@math.columbia.edu
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University
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8:00 a.m.
On the injectivity of satellite operations in knot concordance.
Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
(1079-57-330) -
8:30 a.m.
Applications of the knot Floer complex to concordance.
Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University
(1079-57-318) -
9:00 a.m.
A new filtration of the Magnus kernel of the Torelli group.
R. Taylor McNeill*, Rice University
(1079-57-233) -
9:30 a.m.
Representations of the knot group and the cyclic branched covers.
Ying Hu*, Louisiana State University
(1079-57-322) -
10:00 a.m.
Homotopy periods of link maps and Milnor's invariants.
Clayton Shonkwiler*, University of Georgia
Frederick R. Cohen, University of Rochester
Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
(1079-57-384) -
10:30 a.m.
Iterating the Whitney move.
James Conant*, University of Tennessee
Robert Schneiderman, City University of New York, Lehman College
Peter Teichner, UC Berkeley, Max-Planck Bonn
(1079-57-442)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday March 11, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 1300, Business Administration Building (BSN)
Organizers:
Peter Horn, Columbia University pdhorn@math.columbia.edu
Constance Leidy, Wesleyan University
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2:30 p.m.
L-spaces and left-orderability.
Cameron McA. Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
Steven Boyer, University of Quebec at Montreal
Liam Watson, UCLA
(1079-57-382) -
3:00 p.m.
Two new uses for the Alexander module.
Mark Powell*, Indiana University
(1079-57-299) -
3:30 p.m.
Topologically slice knots with small fundamental group.
Prudence Heck*, Rice University
Tim Cochran, Rice University
(1079-57-342) -
4:00 p.m.
Slicing two-bridge links.
Kenneth L Baker*, Univeristy of Miami
Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
Ana Lecuona, Penn State University
(1079-57-298) -
4:30 p.m.
Groups and their lower central series quotients.
Gilbert Baumslag, City College of New York
Roman Mikhailov, Steklov Mathematical Institute
Kent E Orr*, Indiana University
(1079-57-375) -
5:00 p.m.
Obstructions to embedding torus tangles in links.
Susan Abernathy*, Louisiana State University
(1079-57-359)
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2:30 p.m.
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