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Fall Western Sectional Meeting

• University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
• November 9-10, 2019 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1153

Associate secretaries:

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

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Special Session on Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topology

• Saturday November 9, 2019, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topology, I
  Room 2351, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  Nur Saglam, Virginia Tech sagla004@umn.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A generalization of Rasmussen's invariant, with applications to surfaces in some four-manifolds.
    Ciprian Manolescu, UCLA
    Marco Marengon*, UCLA
    Sucharit Sarkar, UCLA
    Michael Willis, UCLA
    (1153-57-163)
• Saturday November 9, 2019, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topology, II
  Room 2351, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  Nur Saglam, Virginia Tech sagla004@umn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Smooth and symplectic isotopy on rational 4-manifolds.
    Jun Li*, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
    Tian-Jun Li, University of Minneosta
    Weiwei Wu, University of Georgia
    (1153-57-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Symplectic Structures with Non-Isomorphic Primitive Cohomology on Open 4-Manifolds.
    Matt Gibson*, UC Irvine
    Li-Sheng Tseng, UC Irvine
    Stefano Vidussi, UC Riverside
    (1153-55-483)
• Sunday November 10, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topology, III
  Room 2351, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  Nur Saglam, Virginia Tech sagla004@umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convex hypersurface theory in contact topology.
    Ko Honda*, UCLA
    (1153-57-84)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Surfaces and isotopies in 4-manifolds via banded unlinks.
    Mark Hughes*, Brigham Young University
    Seungwon Kim, Center for Geometry and Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Korea
    Maggie Miller, Princeton University
    (1153-57-372)
• Sunday November 10, 2019, 2:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topology, IV
  Room 2351, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  Nur Saglam, Virginia Tech sagla004@umn.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Torus bundles that bound rational homology circles.
    Jonathan Simone*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1153-57-317)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Biquandle Brackets: An Introduction.
    Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1153-57-83)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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