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Fall Central Sectional Meeting (formerly at University of Texas at El Paso)

• now meeting virtually, MDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society)
• September 12-13, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1159

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Update: the 2020 Fall Sectional Meetings will be held VIRTUALLY on their original dates. Further details will be posted as soon as they become available. Please email any questions to Meetings staff.

Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Knot Theory

• Saturday September 12, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Knot Theory, I
  AMS 4, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of Texas at El Paso
  Luis Valdez-Sanchez, University of Texas at El Paso lvsanchez@utep.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of quantum invariants of surface diffeomorphisms.
    Francis Bonahon*, University of Southern California
    Helen Wong, Claremont McKenna College
    Tian Yang, Texas A&M University
    (1159-57-42)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Number theory questions related to Seifert matrices and Alexander modules.
    Alison Beth Miller*, AMS Math Reviews
    (1159-11-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The L-space conjecture, left-orderability and circular orderability of fundamental groups.
    Adam Clay*, University of Manitoba
    Tyrone Ghaswala, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Jason Bell, University of Waterloo
    (1159-55-185)
• Saturday September 12, 2020, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Knot Theory, II
  AMS 4, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of Texas at El Paso
  Luis Valdez-Sanchez, University of Texas at El Paso lvsanchez@utep.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Computation in fundamental groups of 3-manifolds.
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    (1159-57-122)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Minimal crossing knot diagrams and unknotting number.
    Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
    (1159-57-143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Probability distributions associated with weaving knots.
    Ross Staffeldt*, New Mexico State University
    Rama Mishra, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 411008 India
    Hitesh Raundal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 411008 India
    (1159-57-41)
• Sunday September 13, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Knot Theory, III
  AMS 4, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of Texas at El Paso
  Luis Valdez-Sanchez, University of Texas at El Paso lvsanchez@utep.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Morse-Novikov number of knots: connected sums and cabling.
    Kenneth L Baker*, University of Miami
    (1159-57-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Kakimizu complex for a genus one hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere.
    Luis G. Valdez-Sanchez*, University of Texas at El Paso
    (1159-57-130)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Amusing Permutation Representations of Group Extensions.
    J. Scott Carter*, Austin
    (1159-57-135)
• Sunday September 13, 2020, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Knot Theory, IV
  AMS 4, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of Texas at El Paso
  Luis Valdez-Sanchez, University of Texas at El Paso lvsanchez@utep.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Satellite operators on knot concordance.
    Allison N. Miller*, Rice University
    (1159-57-98)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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