Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2015 03:30:10

Associate secretaries:

Saturday October 24, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, I
Room 1112, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
- 8:00 a.m.
  Representations of loop braid groups.
  Liang Chang*, Texas A&M University
  (1114-57-298)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sheaves on topological quandles.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida, Tampa FL
  (1114-57-297)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Checkerboard coloring and virtual knot invariants.
  Aaron Kaestner*, North Park university
  (1114-54-289)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some Geometric Applications of Virtual Knot Theory.
  M. Chrisman*, Monmouth University
  A. Kaestner, North Park University
  R. Todd, Mount Mercy Univesity
  (1114-57-44)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Checkerboard framings and virtual links.
  Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
  (1114-57-37)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rotational Virtual Links and Quantum Link Invariants.
  Louis H Kauffman*, UIC
  (1114-57-57)

Saturday October 24, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, II
Room 1112, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cocycle multipliers of Yang-Baxter operators.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (1114-57-270)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rack relations and homology.
  Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
  (1114-57-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Fractal Simplices.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1114-57-174)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tangle Functors at Roots of Unity.
  Nathan Druivenga*, The Unversity of Iowa
  Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Sanjay Kumar, The University of Iowa
  (1114-57-233)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Representations of the Skein Algebra at roots of Unity.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (1114-57-79)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Coarse Geometry of the Kakimizu complex.
  Robin T. Wilson*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  Jesse Johnson, Google
  Roberto Pelayo, University of Hawai'i, Hilo
  (1114-54-111)

Sunday October 25, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, III
Room 1112, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
- 8:00 a.m.
  Folded Ribbon Knots in the Plane.
  Elizabeth Denne*, Washington & Lee University
  (1114-57-90)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Asymptotics of random knot diagrams.
  Harrison Chapman*, University of Georgia
  (1114-05-136)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Subknots in Tight Knots, KnotPlot Knots, and Random Knots.
  Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
  (1114-57-108)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph.
  Ryan Blair, California State University, Long Beach
  Marion Campisi, Stanford University
  Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University
  Scott Taylor, Colby College
  Maggy Tomova*, The University of Iowa
  (1114-57-102)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph.
  Ryan Blair, California State University Long Beach
  Marion Campisi*, San Jose State University
  Jesse Johnson, Google
  Scott A. Taylor, Colby College
  Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
  (1114-57-131)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Random Knot Diagrams.
  Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
  Harrison Chapman, University of Georgia
  Matt Mastin, MailChimp, Inc.
  (1114-57-112)

Sunday October 25, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, IV
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
- 3:00 p.m.
  Unital Shelves.
  Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
  (1114-54-101)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Pulling-force-induced elongation and alignment effects on entanglement and knotting characteristics of linear polymers in a melt.
  Eleni Panagiotou*, University of California Santa Barbara
  Martin Kroeger, ETH Zurich
  (1114-82-109)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The number of surfaces of fixed genus in an alternating link complement.
  Joel Hass, University of California, Davis
  Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
  Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, University of California, Davis
  (1114-57-239)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Movie moves for singular link cobordisms in 4-dimensional space.
  Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  (1114-57-62)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Models of Knotting in Polymeric System.
  Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1114-57-96)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Bridge position for Seifert surfaces.
  Carson S. Rogers*, University of California, Davis
  (1114-57-304)