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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
March 7-8, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1107
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and their Invariants
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Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and their Invariants, I
Room 206, White-Gravenor Hall
Organizers:
Cagatay Kutluhan, University at Buffalo
Thomas E. Mark, University of Virginia tmark@virginia.edu
Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
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8:00 a.m.
Approximating taut foliations.
William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
(1107-57-411) -
9:00 a.m.
Tori in contact 3-manifolds.
John Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
(1107-57-351) -
10:00 a.m.
Contact topology and reducible surgeries.
Tye Lidman*, University of Texas at Austin
Steven Sivek, Princeton University
(1107-57-197) -
10:30 a.m.
Knots Transverse to a Vector Field.
Patricia Cahn*, University of Pennsylvania
Vladimir Chernov, Dartmouth College
(1107-57-492)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and their Invariants, II
Room 206, White-Gravenor Hall
Organizers:
Cagatay Kutluhan, University at Buffalo
Thomas E. Mark, University of Virginia tmark@virginia.edu
Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
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2:00 p.m.
Knot Floer homology and concordance.
Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University
(1107-57-315) -
2:30 p.m.
Obstructions to Lagrangian concordance.
Christopher R Cornwell, Université du Québec à Montréal
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
Steven Sivek*, Princeton University
(1107-57-320) -
3:00 p.m.
Cylindrical Contact Homology: An Abridged Retrospective.
Jo Nelson*, IAS and Columbia University
Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley
(1107-53-38) -
3:30 p.m.
Abelian Gauge Theory and Khovanov Homology.
Aliakbar Daemi*, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
(1107-58-494) -
4:00 p.m.
The quilted Atiyah-Floer conjecture and the Yang-Mills heat flow.
David L Duncan*, Michigan State University
(1107-53-307)
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2:00 p.m.
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Sunday March 8, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Structures on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and their Invariants, III
Room 206, White-Gravenor Hall
Organizers:
Cagatay Kutluhan, University at Buffalo
Thomas E. Mark, University of Virginia tmark@virginia.edu
Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
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8:00 a.m.
Multisections of Lefschetz fibrations and topology of symplectic 4-manifolds.
R. Inanc Baykur*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kenta Hayano, Hokkaido University
(1107-57-308) -
9:00 a.m.
Symplectic fillings.
Laura Starkston*, University of Texas at Austin
(1107-57-39) -
9:30 a.m.
Symplectic embeddings of four-dimensional toric domains.
Daniel A Cristofaro-Gardiner*, Harvard University
(1107-53-390) -
10:00 a.m.
Knot Floer Homology and the Tate Curve.
Lucas Culler*, Princeton University
(1107-51-455)
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8:00 a.m.
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