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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 18-20, 2013 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1094

Associate secretaries:

Georgia M. Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Geometric Aspects of 3-Manifold Invariants

• Friday October 18, 2013, 4:45 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of 3-Manifold Invariants, I
  Room 102, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
  

  • 4:45 p.m.
    Signatures of real algebraic curves via plumbing diagrams.
    Patrick M. Gilmer*, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University
    Stepan Yu Orevkov, Laboratoire Emile Picard, Toulouse, France and Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow, Russia
    (1094-57-162)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Combinatorics of Link Diagrams and Volume Estimates.
    Adam J. Giambrone*, Michigan State University
    (1094-57-225)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Oriented skein modules and the Frohman-Gelca formula.
    Heather M. Russell*, Washington College
    (1094-57-313)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    Example of an Extended Topological Quantum Field Theory.
    Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1094-57-351)
• Saturday October 19, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of 3-Manifold Invariants, II
  Room 102, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ribbon Graph Constructions with Applications to Link Invariants.
    Neal W Stoltzfus*, Louisiana State University
    (1094-57-257)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs.
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    Adam Lowrance*, Vassar College
    (1094-57-83)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Localization and the link Floer homology of doubly periodic knots.
    Kristen Hendricks*, UCLA
    (1094-57-103)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flag algebras and the stable coefficients of the Jones polynomial.
    Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Sergey Norin, McGill University
    Thao Vuong*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1094-51-75)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regular triangulations and the index of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold.
    Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Craig D. Hodgson, University of Melbourne
    J. Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
    (1094-57-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A re fined upper bound for the hyperbolic volume of alternating links and the colored Jones polynomial.
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, ICERM, Brown University / University of California - Davis
    (1094-57-62)
• Saturday October 19, 2013, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of 3-Manifold Invariants, III
  Room 102, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cusp volumes of alternating knots.
    Marc Lackenby, University of Oxford
    Jessica S Purcell*, Brigham Young University
    (1094-57-194)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The tail of a quantum spin network and Andrews-Gordon identities.
    Mustafa Hajij*, Louisiana State University
    (1094-55-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On left-orderable fundamental groups and Dehn surgeries on knots.
    Anh T Tran*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (1094-57-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constructing representations of the Kauffman skein algebra.
    Helen M Wong*, Carleton College
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
    (1094-57-328)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Distortion and thickness of complexes in Euclidean space.
    Michael Freedman, Microsoft Station Q
    Slava Krushkal*, University of Virginia
    (1094-57-200)
• Sunday October 20, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of 3-Manifold Invariants, IV
  Room 102, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Growth of homology in finite abelian coverings.
    Thang Le*, Georgia Insitute of Technology
    (1094-57-167)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Knot contact homology and representations of the knot group.
    Christopher R Cornwell*, Duke University
    (1094-57-127)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Systoles and Dehn surgery for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Grant S Lakeland*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Christopher J Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1094-57-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Multiple Tails of Torus Knots.
    Cody Armond*, University of Iowa
    (1094-57-301)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Satellite operators as group actions on knot concordance.
    Christopher W Davis, University of Wisonsin-Eau Claire
    Arunima Ray*, Rice University
    (1094-57-339)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolic cone metrics on $3$-manifolds with boundary.
    Feng Luo, Rutgers University
    Tian Yang*, Stanford University
    (1094-57-07)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Kauffman bracket skein module of a connected sum of copies of $S^1\times S^2$ at roots of unit.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, The National Science Foundation
    (1094-57-85)

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