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Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
September 16-17, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1132

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants

• Saturday September 16, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants, I
  Room 212, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  William Menasco, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo-SUNY asikora@buffalo.edu
  Stephan Wehrli, Syracuse University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quandle knot invariants from $SO(3)$.
    W. Edwin Clark, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1132-57-137)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometry of biperiodic alternating links.
    Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Jessica Purcell, Monash University
    (1132-57-115)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Right-angled volume of alternating links.
    Abhijit Champanerkar, CUNY (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center)
    Ilya Kofman*, CUNY (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center)
    Jessica Purcell, Monash University
    (1132-57-131)
• Saturday September 16, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants, II
  Room 212, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  William Menasco, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo-SUNY asikora@buffalo.edu
  Stephan Wehrli, Syracuse University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An application of TQFT to modular representation theory.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
    Gregor Masbaum, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
    (1132-20-111)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simplicial Homotopy Theory and Khovanov Homology.
    Louis H Kauffman*, Math, UIC, 851 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607 - 7045
    (1132-57-114)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Turaev-Viro invariants and Gromov norm.
    Renaud Detcherry*, Michigan State University
    Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
    (1132-55-25)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The dogma is wrong.
    Dror Bar-Natan*, University of Toronto
    (1132-57-161)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Extreme Khovanov homology of almost alternating links.
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    Adam Lowrance*, Vassar College
    (1132-57-116)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Generic Dehn-Thurston Coordinates.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    Thang Le, Georgia Tech University
    (1132-57-13)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants, III
  Room 212, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  William Menasco, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo-SUNY asikora@buffalo.edu
  Stephan Wehrli, Syracuse University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The ribbonlength of knot diagrams.
    Elizabeth Denne, Washington & Lee University
    John M. Sullivan, Technische Universitat, Berlin
    Nancy C. Wrinkle*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1132-54-316)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On factorization and chromatic graph homology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
    Vladimir Baranovsky, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine
    (1132-57-244)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Checkerboard plumbings.
    Thomas Kindred*, University of Iowa
    (1132-57-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $\tau$-invariants for knots in rational homology spheres.
    Katherine Raoux*, Michigan State University
    (1132-57-296)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants.
    Tian Yang*, Texas A&M University
    (1132-57-27)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants, IV
  Room 212, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  William Menasco, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo-SUNY asikora@buffalo.edu
  Stephan Wehrli, Syracuse University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Welded $n$-links and cobordisms.
    Blake Karl Winter*, Oakland University
    (1132-14-121)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Concordance invariants of virtual knots.
    Hans U Boden*, McMaster University
    Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
    Robin Gaudreau, McMaster University
    (1132-57-118)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Interlocking solid tori in contact 3-manifolds.
    Douglas J. LaFountain*, Western Illinois University
    (1132-57-144)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Future of braid foliation techniques.
    William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    (1132-54-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Verification of the Jones unknot conjecture up to 22 crossings.
    Robert E Tuzun*, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo
    Adam S Sikora, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo
    (1132-54-165)

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