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Fall Western Sectional Meeting
University of Denver, Denver, CO
October 8-9, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1122

Associate secretaries:

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

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Special Session on Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots

• Saturday October 8, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots, I
  Room 454, Sturm Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Hanselman, University of Texas at Austin hanselman@math.utexas.edu
  Kristen Hendricks, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Refinements of the contact invariant in Heegaard Floer theory.
    John A Baldwin, Boston College
    David Shea Vela-Vick*, Louisiana State University
    (1122-57-389)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ozsv{á}th--Szab{ó}'s bordered theory and quantum representations.
    Andrew Manion*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1122-57-298)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Link cobordisms and functoriality in link Floer homology.
    Ian Michael Zemke*, UCLA
    (1122-53-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Towards bordered HF- with torus boundary.
    Robert Lipshitz*, University of Oregon
    Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University
    Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
    (1122-57-147)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A comparison of Heegaard Floer homology and quantum invariants.
    Corrin Clarkson*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1122-57-290)
• Saturday October 8, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots, II
  Room 454, Sturm Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Hanselman, University of Texas at Austin hanselman@math.utexas.edu
  Kristen Hendricks, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Concordance in homology spheres.
    Jennifer Hom, Georgia Tech
    Adam Simon Levine, Princeton University
    Tye Lidman*, North Carolina State University
    (1122-57-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Upsilon, knot cobordisms and braid index.
    Peter Feller, Boston College
    David Krcatovich*, Rice University
    (1122-57-41)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The gap between algebraic knots and iterated torus knots.
    Shida Wang*, University of Oregon
    (1122-57-354)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Heegaard Floer homology for tangles and tangle cobordisms.
    Akram Alishahi*, Columbia university
    Eaman Eftekhary, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
    (1122-57-330)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An unoriented skein exact triangle for tangle Floer homology.
    Ina Petkova, Dartmouth College
    C.-M. Michael Wong*, Columbia University
    (1122-57-319)
• Sunday October 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots, III
  Room 454, Sturm Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Hanselman, University of Texas at Austin hanselman@math.utexas.edu
  Kristen Hendricks, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Two-fold quasi-alternating links, Khovanov homology and instanton homology.
    Christopher Scaduto*, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
    Matthew Stoffregen, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1122-57-252)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Invariants of tangles and surfaces from Szabó's perturbation of Khovanov homology.
    Adam R Saltz*, University of Georgia
    (1122-57-259)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An annular refinement of the transverse element in Khovanov homology.
    Diana Hubbard*, University of Michigan
    Adam Saltz, University of Georgia
    (1122-57-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Marked link invariants.
    Sherry Gong*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1122-54-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Alexander polynomial of braids with adequate closure.
    Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of Texas-Austin
    (1122-57-238)
• Sunday October 9, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots, IV
  Room 454, Sturm Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Hanselman, University of Texas at Austin hanselman@math.utexas.edu
  Kristen Hendricks, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The prism manifold realization problem.
    William Ballinger, California Institute of Technology
    Ching-Yun Hsu, California Institute of Technology
    Wyatt Mackey, Harvard University
    Yi Ni, California Institute of Technology
    Tynan Ochse, California Institute of Technology
    Faramarz Vafaee*, California Institute of Technology
    (1122-57-377)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Invariants of 4 manifolds with the homology circle cross the 3-sphere.
    Jianfeng Lin*, Massachusetts institute of technology
    Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis university
    Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami
    (1122-57-222)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Klein-four connections and the Casson invariant for non-trivial admissible $U(2)$ bundles.
    Cristopher Scaduto, Brandeis University
    Matthew Stoffregen*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1122-57-295)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Linking numbers in cyclic branched covers of $S^3$ and Casson-Gordon invariants.
    Tynan B. Kelly*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1122-57-268)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The non-orientable 4-genus and Donaldson's Diagnalizaton Theorem.
    Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
    (1122-57-48)

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