AMS :: Fall Southeastern Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 20, 2012 17:36:31

Associate secretaries:

Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Saturday October 13, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Knot Theory, I
Room 120, Newcomb Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, University of Southern California
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten.la@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial Spatial Graph Floer Homology.
  Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
  Danielle O'Donnol, Imperial College London
  (1083-57-224)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Graph homology and configuration spaces.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, University of Pennsylvania
  Vladimir Baranovsky, University of California-Irvine
  (1083-18-187)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A knot Floer invariant of certain framed graphs.
  Allison Gilmore*, University of California Los Angeles
  (1083-57-219)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On torsion in the Khovanov homology of knots.
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1083-57-234)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quasi-alternating Montesinos links.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island & Graduate Center CUNY
  Philip Ording, Medgar Evers College CUNY
  (1083-57-68)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topologically slice knots and bipolarity.
  Tim D Cochran, Rice University
  Peter D Horn*, Syracuse University
  (1083-57-88)

Saturday October 13, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Knot Theory, II
Room 120, Newcomb Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, University of Southern California
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten.la@gmail.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and their asymptotics.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1083-57-220)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A quantum trace map.
  Helen Wong*, Carleton College
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
  (1083-57-192)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some properties and applications of a graph basis for the Temperley--Lieb algebra.
  Xuanting Cai, LSU
  Robert Todd*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  (1083-55-167)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Krebes' tangle.
  Susan Abernathy*, Louisiana State University
  (1083-57-189)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The head and tail of the colored Jones polynomial for adequate links.
  Cody W. Armond*, University of Iowa
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  (1083-57-190)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Geometric Approach to the Jones Polynomial.
  Charles D Frohman*, The Univerisity of Iowa
  (1083-57-64)

Sunday October 14, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Knot Theory, III
Room 120, Newcomb Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, University of Southern California
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten.la@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  Quasifuchsian surfaces in knot complements.
  David Futer, Temple University
  Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
  Jessica S Purcell*, Brigham Young University
  (1083-57-101)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Jones polynomial and surfaces far from fibers.
  David Futer*, Temple University
  Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
  Jessica S Purcell, Brigham Young University
  (1083-57-105)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hyperbolic structures from link diagrams.
  Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee
  Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, Louisiana State University
  (1083-57-14)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Character Varieties of Families of One-Cusped Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
  Kate Petersen*, Florida State University
  (1083-57-150)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lorenz and horseshoe knots.
  Ilya Kofman*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  Joan Birman, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (1083-57-110)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extending an entropic magma by an affine entropic magma.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UG
  (1083-55-75)

Sunday October 14, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Knot Theory, IV
Room 120, Newcomb Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, University of Southern California
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten.la@gmail.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  Invariants of Links in Thickened Surfaces.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  J Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  (1083-57-66)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing the height of Kauffmam's clock lattice.
  Moshe Cohen*, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  (1083-57-08)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Concordance Genus of 11--crossing Knots.
  M Kate Kearney*, Louisiana State University
  (1083-57-191)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A categorification of the Tutte polynomial.
  Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
  Adam M Lowrance*, Vassar College
  (1083-57-54)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Recursive Behavior of Ribbon Graph Polynomials and applications to link polynomials.
  Neal W Stoltzfus*, Louisiana State University
  Jordan Keller, Columbia University
  MurphyKate Montee, Notre Dame
  (1083-57-180)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Irreducible factors of modular representations of mapping class groups arising in Integral TQFT.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  Gregor Masbaum, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu (UMR 7586 du CNRS)
  (1083-57-123)