Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 13, 2013 00:24:55

Associate secretaries:

Steven H. Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology, I
Room S295, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Baldwin, Boston College
Joshua Greene, Boston College joshua.greene@bc.edu
Eli Grigsby, Boston College
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the Plamenevskaya invariant.
  Robert Lipshitz, University of North Carolina
  Lenhard Ng, Duke University
  Sucharit Sarkar*, Princeton University
  (1088-57-214)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Triply graded coloured homology.
  Sabin Cautis*, University of Southern California
  (1088-16-225)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The characteristic-2 Rasmussen invariant and mutation.
  Thomas C Jaeger*, Syracuse University
  (1088-57-261)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Open books, twist numbers, and Floer homology.
  Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
  Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia
  (1088-57-221)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Open book foliation and fractional Dehn twist coefficients.
  Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
  (1088-57-215)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Transverse knots, infinite cyclic covers and Heegaard Floer homology.
  Tye Lidman, University of Texas, Austin
  Robert Lipshitz, University of North Carolina
  Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton University
  David Shea Vela-Vick*, Louisiana State University
  (1088-57-262)

Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology, II
Room S295, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Baldwin, Boston College
Joshua Greene, Boston College joshua.greene@bc.edu
Eli Grigsby, Boston College
- 3:00 p.m.
  Trisections of 4-manifolds.
  David T Gay*, University of Georgia and Euclid Lab
  Robion Kirby, University of California Berkeley
  (1088-57-246)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Surface diagrams and Floer homology.
  Jonathan D Williams*, University of Georgia
  (1088-57-136)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Computing Higher-order Alexander Polynomials of Knots.
  Peter D Horn*, Syracuse University
  (1088-57-121)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The pillowcase and perturbations of traceless representations of knot groups.
  Matthew Hedden*, Michigan State University
  Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno
  Paul Kirk, University of Indiana, Bloomington
  (1088-57-125)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Heegaard Floer homology and the Alexander trick.
  Liam Watson*, UCLA
  (1088-57-256)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Seifert form, Alexander module, and bordered Floer homology.
  Jennifer Hom*, Columbia
  Sam Lewallen, Princeton
  Tye Lidman, UT Austin
  Liam Watson, UCLA
  (1088-57-244)

Sunday April 7, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology, III
Room S295, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Baldwin, Boston College
Joshua Greene, Boston College joshua.greene@bc.edu
Eli Grigsby, Boston College
- 8:00 a.m.
  Obstructing finite surgery.
  Margaret Doig*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1088-57-280)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Surgeries between lens spaces and $S^1 \times S^2$.
  Radu A Cebanu*, Boston College
  (1088-51-208)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Unbounding Bridge Numbers.
  Kenneth L Baker*, Univeristy of Miami
  Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
  John Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
  (1088-57-210)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Doubly Periodic Knots and Link Floer Homology.
  Kristen Hendricks*, Columbia University
  (1088-57-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Floer homology and non-zero degree maps.
  Cagri Karakurt, University of Texas at Austin
  Tye Lidman*, University of Texas at Austin
  Ciprian Manolescu, UCLA
  (1088-57-219)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Periodic knots and Heegaard Floer homology.
  Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada, Reno
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1088-57-227)