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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis campus), Minneapolis, MN
October 28-30, 2016 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1123

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds

• Friday October 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, I
  MOH 403, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
  Alexander Zupan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln zupan@unl.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Additive Invariants of Knots, Links, and Graphs in 3-manifolds.
    Scott A. Taylor*, Colby College
    Maggy Tomova, U. Iowa
    (1123-57-55)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Kakimizu complexes of select 3-manifolds.
    Jennifer Schultens*, UC Davis
    (1123-57-299)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Knotted handlebodies and knots with a half-integral toroidal surgery.
    Mario Eudave-Muñoz*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
    (1123-57-354)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Critical Bridge Spheres.
    Daniel Rodman*, The University of Iowa
    (1123-57-310)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stable Rips Sela canonical representatives in geometric small cancelation groups.
    Yo'av Rieck*, University of Arkansas
    Yasushi Yamashita, Nara Women's University
    (1123-20-173)
• Saturday October 29, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, II
  MOH 403, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
  Alexander Zupan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln zupan@unl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Virtual Knot Concordance and the Band-Pass Move.
    Micah Chrisman*, Monmouth University
    (1123-57-25)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Every Genus 1 Algebraically Slice Knot is 1-Solvable.
    Carolyn Otto*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Christopher Davis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Taylor Martin, Sam Houston State University
    Jung Hwan Park, Rice University
    (1123-57-123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Concordance and homology spheres.
    Jennifer Hom, Georgia Tech
    Adam Simon Levine, Princeton University
    Tye Lidman*, North Carolina State University
    (1123-57-22)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diagrams of Relative Trisections.
    Nick Castro, UC Davis
    David Gay, University of Georgia, Athens
    Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo*, University of Georgia, Athens
    (1123-57-338)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Genus two Lefschetz fibrations via lantern substitution.
    Anar Akhmedov*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Naoyuki Monden, Osaka University
    (1123-57-225)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using globular to study higher dimensional knottings.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    (1123-57-180)
• Saturday October 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, III
  MOH 403, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
  Alexander Zupan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln zupan@unl.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Unicity Conjecture for the Kauffman bracket skein algebra.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    Thang Le, Georgia Tech
    (1123-57-152)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Khovanov homology detects adequate homogeneous states.
    Thomas Kindred*, University of Iowa
    (1123-57-376)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A topological characterization of toroidally alternating knots.
    Seungwon Kim*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1123-57-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Determining unknotting numbers.
    Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
    (1123-57-137)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, IV
  MOH 403, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
  Alexander Zupan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln zupan@unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Guts and volume for a simple family of hyperbolic $3$--orbifolds.
    Christopher K Atkinson*, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Jessica Mallepalle, Arcadia University
    Joseph Melby, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Shawn Rafalski, Fairfield University
    Jennifer Vaccaro, Olin College of Engineering
    (1123-57-301)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commensurability classes of hyperbolic knot and link complements.
    Christian R Millichap*, Linfield College
    William Worden, Temple University
    (1123-57-133)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Linking numbers of pseudo-branch curves in irregular dihedral covers.
    Patricia Cahn*, Smith College
    Alexandra Kjuchukova, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1123-57-395)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algorithms and dynamical systems for closed 3-manifold groups, I.
    Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    Tim Susse, University of Nebraska
    (1123-20-349)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Algorithms and dynamical systems for closed 3-manifold groups, II.
    Tim Susse*, University of Nebraska
    Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
    (1123-20-326)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On non-embeddability of knot groups into the group of analytic diffeomorphisms of the interval.
    Azer Akhmedov*, Associate Professor, NDSU
    Cody Martin, Graduate Student, NDSU
    (1123-57-344)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Computing Heegaard genus is NP-hard.
    David Bachman, Pitzer College
    Ryan Derby-Talbot*, Quest University Canada
    Eric Sedgwick, Depaul University
    (1123-57-45)

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