AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, October 7, 2016 14:15:51

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 24, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Decomposing 3-manifolds, I
Room 04, Druckenmiller Hall
Organizers:
Tao Li, Boston College
Scott Taylor, Colby College scott.taylor@colby.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Essential embeddings of multibranched surfaces into 3-manifolds.
  Makoto Ozawa*, Komazawa University
  (1121-57-157)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Goeritz groups of Heegaard splittings for 3-manifolds.
  Sangbum Cho, Hanyang University
  Yuya Koda*, Hiroshima University
  (1121-57-120)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bridge spectra of cables of 2-bridge knots.
  Nicholas Owad*, Gettysburg College
  (1121-57-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph.
  Marion Campisi*, San Jose State University
  Ryan Blair, California State University, Long Beach
  Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University
  Scott Taylor, Colby College
  Maggy Tomova, The University of Iowa
  (1121-57-284)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Twist Number and the Alternating Volume of Knots.
  Ryan Blair*, California State University Long Beach
  Heidi Furlong, California State University Long Beach
  Leslie Rodriguez, California State University Long Beach
  (1121-57-118)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Additive invariants for links and graphs in 3-manifolds.
  Scott Taylor, Colby College
  Maggy Tomova*, The University of Iowa
  (1121-57-26)

Saturday September 24, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Decomposing 3-manifolds, II
Room 04, Druckenmiller Hall
Organizers:
Tao Li, Boston College
Scott Taylor, Colby College scott.taylor@colby.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Foliations and cyclic branched covers.
  Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1121-57-111)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymmetric L-space knots in $S^3$.
  Kenneth L Baker*, University of Miami
  John Luecke, University of Texas
  (1121-57-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Persistently foliar knots, I.
  Charles Delman, Eastern Illinois University
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
  (1121-57-220)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Persistently Foliar Knots, II.
  Charles I. Delman*, Eastern Illinois University
  Rachel Roberts, Washington University in St. Louis
  (1121-57-225)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Thurston's Euler Class One Conjecture.
  Mehdi Yazdi*, Princeton University
  (1121-57-82)
- 5:30 p.m.
  NonLERFness of groups of non-geometric 3-manifolds.
  Hongbin Sun*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1121-57-152)

Sunday September 25, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Decomposing 3-manifolds, III
Room 04, Druckenmiller Hall
Organizers:
Tao Li, Boston College
Scott Taylor, Colby College scott.taylor@colby.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discrete conformal geometry of polyhedral surfaces and its convergence.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers university
  Jian Sun, Tsinghua University
  Tianqi Wu, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1121-57-68)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants.
  Tian Yang*, Stanford University
  (1121-57-32)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decompositions of Multi-crossing Knot and Link Complements into Bipyramids.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  Gregory Kehne, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1121-57-69)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Isotopy classes of crossing arcs in hyperbolic alternating links.
  Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, Rutgers University, Newark
  (1121-57-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Trisections and Heegaard Splittings of Link Complements.
  Trenton F Schirmer*, University of Georgia
  (1121-57-84)