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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
September 9-10, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1131

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds

• Saturday September 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, I
  Room 70, Business Leadership Building
  Organizers:
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, The University of Texas at Dallas
  Anh T. Tran, The University of Texas at Dallas att140830@utdallas.edu
  

  • 8:30 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
    (1131-57-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Unknotting number and minimal crossing diagrams.
    Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
    (1131-57-245)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TIME CHANGE: Special subgroups of Bianchi groups.
    Michelle Chu*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1131-57-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TIME CHANGE: Integrality of $SO(p)_2$ TQFTs.
    Yilong Wang*, The Ohio State University
    (1131-81-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants.
    Tian Yang*, Texas A University
    (1131-57-53)
• Saturday September 9, 2017, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, II
  Room 70, Business Leadership Building
  Organizers:
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, The University of Texas at Dallas
  Anh T. Tran, The University of Texas at Dallas att140830@utdallas.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Knotoids and Virtual Knot Theory.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1131-57-288)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Khovanov homology and torsion.
    Sujoy Mukherjee*, The George Washington University
    J\'{o}zef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    Marithania Silvero, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
    Xiao Wang, The George Washington University
    Seung Yeop Yang, University of Denver
    (1131-57-267)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Applications of partial presimplicial sets.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1131-57-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology.
    Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    Xiao Wang*, The George Washington University
    (1131-57-318)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A reduction of 4-D knot theory to 3-D knot theory, and its application to the higher homotopy groups of knots.
    Samuel J. Lomonaco*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (1131-57-312)
• Sunday September 10, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, III
  Room 70, Business Leadership Building
  Organizers:
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, The University of Texas at Dallas
  Anh T. Tran, The University of Texas at Dallas att140830@utdallas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link.
    Adam M Lowrance*, Vassar College
    Dean Spyropoulos, Vassar College
    (1131-57-88)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the SO(2n) polynomial for virtual links.
    Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    Heather Dye, McKendree University
    (1131-57-232)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representations of the Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra at Roots of Unity.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    Thang Le, Georgia Tech University
    (1131-57-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Commutativity in the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a surface.
    Charles D Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    Thang Le, Georgia Tech
    (1131-57-366)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The product-to-sum formula in SU(2) Chern-Simons theory.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    (1131-81-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Miraculous cancellations for traces of $2$-by-$2$ matrices.
    Francis Bonahon*, University of Southern California
    (1131-57-54)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Representations of Knot Groups.
    Kate Petersen*, Florida State University
    (1131-57-317)
• Sunday September 10, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, IV
  Room 70, Business Leadership Building
  Organizers:
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, The University of Texas at Dallas
  Anh T. Tran, The University of Texas at Dallas att140830@utdallas.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Perverse sheaves and knot contact homology.
    Y Berest, Cornell University
    A Eshmatov*, University of Toledo
    Wai-kit Yeung, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1131-81-302)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On Dihedral Structures in $SO(m)_2$-Fusion Catgeories and Applications to TQFT.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    Yu Tsumura, The Ohio State University
    Yilong Wang, The Ohio State University
    (1131-57-285)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the Property F Conjecture.
    Paul P Gustafson*, Texas A University
    (1131-18-385)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Coefficients Stability of the Colored Jones Polynomial and Twist Regions.
    Mustafa Hajij*, University of South Florida
    (1131-57-15)

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