AMS :: Spring Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 25, 2015 03:30:11

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Saturday April 18, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, I
CBC C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Radmila Sazdanović, North Carolina State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  A bracket polynomial for pseudoknots.
  Heather Ann Dye*, McKendree University
  (1110-57-31)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Rasmussen Invariant for Virtual Knot Cobordisms.
  Heather A Dye, McKendree University
  Aaron Kaestner*, North Park University
  Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1110-54-54)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decorated Heegaard diagrams and combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology.
  Carl Hammarsten*, George Washington Unviersity
  (1110-57-182)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion.
  Adam Lowrance*, Vassar College
  Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
  (1110-57-135)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and Virtual Knot Theory.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1110-57-98)

Saturday April 18, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, II
CBC C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Radmila Sazdanović, North Carolina State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Localized Skein Algebra of a Closed Surface is Frobenius.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (1110-57-29)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Virtual singular braids and links.
  Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  Andrew De la Pena, California State University, Fresno
  Sarah McGahan, California State University, Fresno
  (1110-57-180)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Knots Transverse to a Vector Field.
  Patricia Cahn*, University of Pennsylvania
  Vladimir Chernov, Dartmouth College
  (1110-57-395)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Even and odd Kauffman bracket ideals for genus-1 tangles.
  Susan M Abernathy*, Angelo State University
  Patrick M Gilmer, Louisiana State University
  (1110-57-136)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Hurwitz action on tuples of permutations.
  Yoshiro Yaguchi*, Gunma National College of Technology
  (1110-57-187)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The warping matrix for knots.
  Ayaka Shimizu*, Gunma National College of Technology
  (1110-57-152)

Sunday April 19, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, III
CBC C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Radmila Sazdanović, North Carolina State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Continuous cohomology of topological quandles.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida
  Elkaioum Moutuou, University of Southampton
  (1110-57-362)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Introduction to Yang-Baxter Homology.
  Jing Wang*, George Washington University
  Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University
  (1110-57-396)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Annihilation of the torsion subgroup of rack homology of $R_{2k}$ and some other finite quandles.
  Seung Yeop Yang*, The George Washington University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
  (1110-57-124)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Precubic homotopy: knot theory motivated "abstract nonsense".
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UG
  Seung Yeop Yang, George Washington University
  (1110-57-125)

Sunday April 19, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, IV
CBC C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Radmila Sazdanović, North Carolina State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Braiding Forests, Products of Simplices, and Cocycles.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1110-57-189)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Links with finite n-quandles.
  Jim E Hoste*, Pitzer College
  Patrick D Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
  (1110-57-219)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quandle cocycle invariants of surface-links via marked graph diagrams.
  Seiich Kamada, Osaka City University
  Jieon Kim, Pusan National University
  Sang Youl Lee*, Pusan National University
  (1110-57-97)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On an invariant of surface-links via marked graph diagrams.
  Yewon Joung*, Pusan National University
  (1110-57-215)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On quandles which give a non-trivial coloring for twist-spun trefoils.
  Kanako Oshiro*, Sophia University
  (1110-57-340)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On properties of partition functions for Alexander quandles.
  Yongju Bae*, Kyungpook National University, Korea
  (1110-55-49)