AMS :: Central Fall Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 10, 2015 03:30:10

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, I
Room 324, Cuneo Hall
Organizers:
David Krcatovich, Rice University
Allison Moore, Rice University ahm6@rice.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:30 a.m.
  TALK CANCELLED: Cable links and L-space surgeries.
  Eugene Gorsky*, University of California, Davis
  Jennifer Hom, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1112-57-149)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stable homology of torus links, and a conjecture of Gorsky-Rasmussen.
  Matthew T Hogancamp*, Indiana University Bloomington
  Michael Abel, Duke University
  (1112-54-657)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Slicing Obstruction From The 10/8 Theorem.
  Andrew Donald, Michigan State University
  Faramarz Vafaee*, California Institute of Technology
  (1112-57-639)

Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, II
Room 324, Cuneo Hall
Organizers:
David Krcatovich, Rice University
Allison Moore, Rice University ahm6@rice.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometrically similar knots.
  David Futer*, Temple University
  Christian Millichap, Linfield College
  (1112-57-560)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Slope Conjecture and 3-string pretzel knots.
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of Texas at Austin
  Roland van der Veen, University of Amsterdam
  (1112-57-163)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Density spectra for knots.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Jessica Purcell, IAS, Princeton
  (1112-57-536)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The probability of choosing the unknot among 2-bridge knots using random Chebyshev billiard table diagrams.
  Moshe Cohen*, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
  Sunder Ram Krishnan, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
  (1112-57-419)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quasi-alternating links with small determinant.
  Tye Lidman, Institute for Advanced Study
  Steven Sivek*, Princeton University
  (1112-57-499)

Sunday October 4, 2015, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, III
Room 324, Cuneo Hall
Organizers:
David Krcatovich, Rice University
Allison Moore, Rice University ahm6@rice.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:30 a.m.
  Independence of satellite knots in smooth concordance.
  Peter Feller, Boston College
  Arunima Ray*, Brandeis University
  (1112-57-482)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Distinguishing mutant pretzel knots in concordance.
  Allison N. Miller*, University of Texas, Austin
  (1112-57-382)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A construction of slice knots via annulus modification.
  JungHwan Park*, Rice University
  (1112-57-261)

Sunday October 4, 2015, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, IV
Room 324, Cuneo Hall
Organizers:
David Krcatovich, Rice University
Allison Moore, Rice University ahm6@rice.edu
- 1:30 p.m.
  Knot Floer homology of pretzel knots.
  Forrest Gordon*, Louisiana State University
  Peter Lambert-Cole, Indiana University
  (1112-54-631)
- 2:00 p.m.
  The slice genus and the Alexander polynomial.
  Peter Feller*, Boston College
  (1112-57-223)
- 2:30 p.m.
  An unoriented skein exact triangle for tangle Floer homology.
  Ina Petkova, Columbia University
  C.-M. Michael Wong*, Columbia University
  (1112-57-541)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Tau invariant for links.
  Katherine Vance*, Rice University
  (1112-57-479)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The genus filtration in the concordance group.
  Shida Wang*, Indiana University
  (1112-57-375)