2012 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 24, 2012 00:23:03

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 17, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, I
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and Quantum Computation.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1080-57-152)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On certain coefficients of the colored Jones polynomial.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
  Cody Armond, Louisiana State University
  (1080-57-377)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Twisted Alexander polynomials of 2-bridge knots.
  Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
  Patrick D Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
  (1080-57-329)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A categorification of the Tutte polynomial.
  Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
  Adam Lowrance*, University of Iowa
  (1080-57-269)

Saturday March 17, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, II
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
- 1:30 p.m.
  Diagrammatical algebra.
  Mikhail Khovanov*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
  (1080-81-335)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Diagram algebras in Khovanov- and Heegaard Floer-type homology theories.
  Denis Auroux, University of California, Berkeley
  J. Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College
  Stephan M. Wehrli*, Syracuse University
  (1080-57-254)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Khovanov homology for virtual knots.
  Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Aaron Kaestner, North Park University
  (1080-57-120)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Duality aspects of Khovanov homology.
  Oleg Viro*, Stony Brook University
  (1080-57-370)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Pure Virtual Braid Group is Quadratic.
  Peter Lee*, University of Toronto
  (1080-54-144)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Picture TQFTs, categorification, and localization.
  Benjamin Cooper, University of Virginia
  Slava Krushkal*, University of Virginia
  (1080-57-223)

Sunday March 18, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, III
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Classical theta functions in a quantum group perspective.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  (1080-81-257)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quantum representations of the mapping class group.
  Michael Fitzpatrick, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa
  Charles D Frohman, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation
  (1080-57-260)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On minimal generating sets of skein modules.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1080-57-302)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Turaev-Viro Endomorphism and the Jones Polynomial.
  Xuanting Cai, Louisiana State University
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (1080-57-265)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial Legendrian Contact Homology in Contact Seifert Fibered Spaces.
  Joan E. Licata*, Institute for Advanced Study / Australian National University
  Joshua M. Sabloff, Haverford College
  (1080-57-208)

Sunday March 18, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, IV
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Extending the Dehn quandle to shears and foliations on the torus.
  Reza Chamanara, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  Jun Hu, Brooklyn College CUNY
  Joel Zablow*, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
  (1080-57-41)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Connected 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
  (1080-57-243)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hom Quandles.
  Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1080-57-110)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mayer-Vietoris sequence for homology of multispindles.
  Krzysztof K Putyra*, Columbia University
  Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University and Gdansk University
  (1080-18-375)