AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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

Fall Western Sectional Meeting
California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
October 24-25, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1114

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

• 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)