
AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session
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Spring Western Sectional Meeting
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
April 18-19, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1110
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Contact Geometry and Low-Dimensional Topology
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Saturday April 18, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Contact Geometry and Low-Dimensional Topology, I
CBC C113, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Ko Honda, University of California, Los Angeles honda@math.ucla.edu
Erkao Bao, University of California, Los Angeles
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
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8:00 a.m.
Embeddings of contact 3-manifolds.
John Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1110-57-63) -
9:00 a.m.
Symplectic Mapping Class Group Relations Generalizing the Chain Relation.
Bahar Acu*, University of Southern California
Russell Avdek, San Francisco, California
(1110-53-74) -
9:30 a.m.
Legendrian Knots, Augmentations, and Rulings.
Caitlin Leverson*, Duke University
(1110-53-157) -
10:00 a.m.
Tightness of positive rational contact surgeries.
Tom Mark, University of Virginia
Bulent Tosun*, University of Virginia
(1110-51-175)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 18, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Contact Geometry and Low-Dimensional Topology, II
CBC C113, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Ko Honda, University of California, Los Angeles honda@math.ucla.edu
Erkao Bao, University of California, Los Angeles
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
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3:00 p.m.
(Sutured) Khovanov homology and representation theory.
J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Boston College
Anthony M. Licata, Australian National University
Stephan M. Wehrli, Syracuse University
(1110-57-167) -
4:00 p.m.
A categorification of quantum sl(1,1) via contact topology.
Yin Tian*, Simons center for geometry and physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(1110-18-147) -
5:00 p.m.
Knotty character varieties.
Vivek Shende*, UC Berkeley
(1110-14-99)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 19, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Contact Geometry and Low-Dimensional Topology, III
CBC C113, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Ko Honda, University of California, Los Angeles honda@math.ucla.edu
Erkao Bao, University of California, Los Angeles
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
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8:00 a.m.
Definition of Cylindrical Contact Homology in Dimension 3.
Erkao Bao*, Math department, UCLA
Ko Honda, Math department, UCLA
(1110-53-90) -
9:00 a.m.
Tight Surgeries on Knots in Overtwisted Contact Manifolds.
James I Conway*, Georgia Tech
(1110-53-119) -
10:00 a.m.
The augmentation category of a Legendrian knot.
Lenhard Ng*, Duke University
Dan Rutherford, Ball State University
Vivek Shende, UC Berkeley
Steven Sivek, Princeton University
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
(1110-57-139)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Contact Geometry and Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
CBC C113, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Ko Honda, University of California, Los Angeles honda@math.ucla.edu
Erkao Bao, University of California, Los Angeles
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
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3:00 p.m.
Legendrian DGA as Immersed Floer Theory.
Garrett D Alston*, University of Oklahoma
(1110-51-264) -
4:00 p.m.
Augmentations are sheaves.
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
Dan Rutherford, Ball State University
Vivek Shende, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Sivek*, Princeton University
Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University
(1110-57-138)
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3:00 p.m.
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