AMS :: Central Spring Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, March 22, 2015 03:30:12

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday March 14, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Invariants of 3-Manifolds, I
Room A128, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Knot signatures, upsilon, and the four-genus of knots.
  Charles Livingston*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
  (1108-57-182)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Left-orderability and cyclic branched covers.
  Ying Hu*, Louisiana State University
  (1108-57-302)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Character Varieties of Double Twist Links.
  Kate Petersen*, Florida State
  Anh Tran, University of Texas at Dallas
  (1108-57-486)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Kauffman arc algebra is finitely generated.
  Helen Wong*, Carleton College
  Martin Bobb, UT Austin
  Dylan Peifer, Cornell University
  (1108-57-377)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Even and odd Kauffman bracket ideals for genus-1 tangles.
  Susan M Abernathy, Angelo State University
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (1108-57-260)

Saturday March 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Invariants of 3-Manifolds, II
Room A128, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Two examples of extended Topological Quantum Field Theories.
  Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1108-57-366)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Chromatic homology and graph configuration spaces.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
  Vladimir Baranovsky, University of California Irvine
  (1108-57-243)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion.
  Adam M Lowrance*, Vassar College
  Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
  (1108-57-172)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Veering Dehn surgery.
  Saul Schleimer, University of Warwick
  Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
  (1108-57-251)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometrically similar knots.
  David Futer*, Temple University
  Christian Millichap, Temple University
  (1108-57-388)

Sunday March 15, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Invariants of 3-Manifolds, III
Room A128, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Tangle Functors coming from $U_q(sl_2)$ at roots of unity.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  Sanjay Kumar, The University of Iowa
  (1108-57-173)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some conjectures about the colored Jones polynomial.
  Anh T. Tran*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080
  (1108-57-92)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Middle Coefficients of the Colored Jones Polynomial.
  Katherine Walsh*, University of Arizona
  (1108-57-478)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Crosscap number of an alternating link and the Jones polynomial.
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, Michigan State University
  (1108-57-175)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectra for volume and determinant density.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Jessica Purcell, Brigham Young University
  (1108-57-110)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hopf Algebra Valued Knotoid Invariants.
  Alexander Borland, The Ohio State University
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (1108-57-559)

Sunday March 15, 2015, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Invariants of 3-Manifolds, IV
Room A128, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University kalfagia@math.msu.edu
- 1:30 p.m.
  Toward a theory of Skein-Theoretic Knot Concordance Invariants.
  Neal W Stoltzfus*, Louisiana State University
  (1108-57-511)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Link diagrams with Turaev genus one.
  Seungwon Kim*, The Graduate center, CUNY
  (1108-57-450)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Botany of transverse knots.
  Douglas J LaFountain*, Western Illinois University
  (1108-57-335)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bridge trisections of knotted surfaces in $S^4$.
  Jeffrey Meier*, Indiana University
  Alexander Zupan, The University of Texas at Austin
  (1108-57-273)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyperbolic volumes and generalized augmented alternating links.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  (1108-57-228)