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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
March 13-15, 2020 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1155

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Special Session on Knots and Links in Low-Dimensional Topology

Friday March 13, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Links in Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 104, Maury Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Mark, University of Virginia
Allison Moore, University of California Davis moorea14@vcu.edu
Ziva Myer, Duke University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Unified Khovanov homology and its properties.
  Krzysztof K. Putyra, Zurich University, Switzerland
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1155-57-518)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Constructions of Lefschetz fibrations using cyclic group actions.
  Anar Akhmedov, UMN
  Mohan Bhupal, METU
  Nur Saglam*, Virginia Tech
  (1155-57-283)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Branched covers bounding rational homology balls.
  Paolo Aceto, Mathematical Institute University of Oxford
  Jeffrey Meier, Department of Mathematics, Western Washington University
  Allison Miller, Department of Mathematics, Rice University
  Maggie Miller, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
  JungHwan Park*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Andras Stipsicz, Renyi Institute of Mathematics
  (1155-57-216)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalising Rasmussen's $s$-invariant. Part 1: Definition and basic properties.
  Ciprian Manolescu, Stanford University
  Marco Marengon, UCLA
  Sucharit Sarkar, UCLA
  Michael Willis*, UCLA
  (1155-57-46)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalising Rasmussen's s-invariant. Part 2: Applications.
  Ciprian Manolescu, Stanford University
  Marco Marengon*, UCLA
  Sucharit Sarkar, UCLA
  Michael Willis, UCLA
  (1155-57-47)

Saturday March 14, 2020, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Links in Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 104, Maury Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Mark, University of Virginia
Allison Moore, University of California Davis moorea14@vcu.edu
Ziva Myer, Duke University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Ribbon homology cobordisms.
  Aliakbar Daemi, Washington University in St. Louis
  Tye Lidman, North Carolina State University
  David Shea Vela-Vick, Louisiana State University
  C.-M. Michael Wong*, Louisiana State University
  (1155-57-322)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Weinstein Handlebodies for Complements of Smoothed Toric Divisors.
  Bahar Acu*, Northwestern University
  Orsola Capovilla-Searle, Duke University
  Agnes Gadbled, Uppsala University
  Aleksandra Marinkovic, University of Belgrade
  Emmy Murphy, Northwestern University
  Laura Starkston, University of California, Davis
  Angela Wu, University College London
  (1155-57-152)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A surgery triangle in involutive Heegaard Floer homology.
  Kristen Hendricks*, Rutgers University
  Jennifer Hom, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Matthew Stoffregen, MIT
  Ian Zemke, Princeton University
  (1155-57-190)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Equivariant aspects of singular instanton Floer homology.
  Aliakbar Daemi, Washington University in St. Louis
  Christopher Scaduto*, University of Miami
  (1155-57-105)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The number of surfaces of fixed genus embedded in a 3-manifold.
  Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, Rutgers University, Newark
  (1155-57-534)

Saturday March 14, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knots and Links in Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 104, Maury Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Mark, University of Virginia
Allison Moore, University of California Davis moorea14@vcu.edu
Ziva Myer, Duke University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Triple linking numbers and Heegaard Floer homology.
  Eugene Gorsky*, University of California, Davis
  Tye Lidman, North Carolina State University
  Beibei Liu, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
  Allison Moore, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (1155-57-100)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Knot Floer homology and relative adjunction inequalities.
  Matt Hedden, Michigan State University
  Katherine Raoux*, Michigan State University
  (1155-57-221)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Concordance crosscap numbers and rational Witt classes.
  Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1155-57-465)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Legendrian links with infinitely many Lagrangian fillings.
  Honghao Gao*, Michigan State University
  (1155-57-156)

Sunday March 15, 2020, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knots and Links in Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 104, Maury Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Mark, University of Virginia
Allison Moore, University of California Davis moorea14@vcu.edu
Ziva Myer, Duke University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Cosmetic twisting operations on fibered knots.
  Carson Rogers*, Boston College
  (1155-57-235)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lower bounds on the tunnel number of composite spatial $\theta$-curves.
  Scott A Taylor*, Colby College
  (1155-57-75)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 9:30 a.m.
  Taut Foliations and Positive Braids.
  Siddhi Krishna*, Boston College
  (1155-57-529)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Pure Braids and Link Concordance.
  Miriam Kuzbary*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1155-57-153)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Break.
- 11:00 a.m.
  A Generalization of the Tristram-Levine Knot Signatures as a Singular Furuta-Ohta Invariant for Tor.
  Mariano Echeverria*, Rutgers University
  (1155-57-219)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The signature of a random 2-bridge knot using Chebyshev billiard table diagrams.
  Moshe Cohen*, State University of New York at New Paltz
  Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
  (1155-57-358)

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