American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2014 00:23:13

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 29, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Applications, I
Sondheim 108, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Samuel Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Geometry of Fox's Free Calculus with Applications to Higher Dimension Knots.
  Samuel J Lomonaco*, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
  (1098-57-44)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Braided manifolds of dimension $3$ and $4.$.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1098-57-310)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Knot Spinning and Rack Coloring.
  Seung Yeop Yang*, The George Washington University
  Jozef Przytycki, The George Washington University
  (1098-55-280)

Saturday March 29, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Applications, II
Sondheim 108, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Samuel Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Alexander type invariants of fusions of links.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1098-57-297)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Structure of the Kauffman bracket skein module of a connected sum of copies of a product of a circle with a sphere.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1098-57-320)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology and Branched Spines.
  Carl Hammarsten*, George Washington University
  (1098-55-269)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Odd homological operations on Khovanov homology.
  Krzysztof K. Putyra, Columbia University
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1098-57-324)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Khovanov type graph homology for non-commutative algebras.
  Jing Wang*, George Washington University
  Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University
  (1098-57-278)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Concordance and boundary genus of satellite links.
  Charles Livingston, Indiana University
  Cornelia A. Van Cott*, University of San Francisco
  (1098-57-195)

Sunday March 30, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Applications, III
Sondheim 108, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Samuel Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Virtual Quandle.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1098-57-151)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Steenrod structures on quantum groups.
  Benjamin Cooper*, University of Zurich
  Anna Beliakova, University of Zurich
  (1098-57-17)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Transverse Khovanov-Rozansky Homologies.
  Hao Wu*, George Washington University
  (1098-57-247)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A filtration on HOMFLY-PT homology via virtual crossings.
  Michael A Abel*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Lev Rozansky, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (1098-55-19)

Sunday March 30, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Applications, IV
Sondheim 108, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Samuel Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Estimates for the hyperbolic volume of knot complements.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
  Anastasiia Tsvietkova, UC Davis
  (1098-57-228)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Torsion in Khovanov homology of semi-adequate links.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
  (1098-57-301)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Modeling DNA assembly by 4-regular rigid vertex graphs.
  Nataša Jonoska, University of South Florida
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (1098-57-179)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topology and data.
  Prudence Heck*, Rice University
  (1098-57-315)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Exact Lagrangian cobordism and pseudoisotopy.
  Lara Simone Suárez*, Université de Montréal
  (1098-51-76)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Progress in Yang-Baxter homology.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UMCP
  (1098-57-326)