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Fall Central Sectional Meeting (formerly at Creighton University)

• now meeting virtually, CDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
• October 9-10, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1171

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Developments in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology

• Saturday October 9, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, I
  Special Session 12, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Margaret Doig, Creighton University MargaretDoig@creighton.edu
  Ying Hu, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Thomas Kindred, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fractional Dehn twists and left-orders.
    Hannah Turner*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Diana Hubbard, City University of New York
    (1171-06-204)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bi-orderability and branched L-space knots.
    Jonathan C. Johnson*, Oklahoma State University
    (1171-57-240)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Veering triangulations and pseudo-Anosov flows.
    Chi Cheuk Tsang*, UC Berkeley
    (1171-57-11)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Flows, growth rates, and the veering polynomial.
    Michael Paul Landry*, Washington University in Saint Louis
    Yair N. Minsky, Yale University
    Samuel J. Taylor, Temple University
    (1171-57-235)
  • 11:10 a.m.
    Taut foliations and leafwise branch covers.
    Jeffrey Norton*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1171-57-29)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Persistently foliar knots.
    Charles I. Delman, Eastern Illinois University
    Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
    (1171-57-181)
• Saturday October 9, 2021, 2:40 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, II
  Special Session 12, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Margaret Doig, Creighton University MargaretDoig@creighton.edu
  Ying Hu, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Thomas Kindred, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Remarks on torsion in Khovanov homology.
    Sujoy Mukherjee*, The Ohio State University
    (1171-57-233)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Extremal and near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one knots.
    Adam M. Lowrance*, Vassar College
    (1171-57-217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Weakly generalized alternating links and the Jones polynomial.
    Brandon Bavier*, Sam Houston State University
    (1171-55-146)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Finiteness conjectures for the Kauffman bracket skein module.
    Jose Roman Aranda Cuevas*, Binghamton University
    Nathaniel Ferguson, Colby College
    (1171-57-112)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    The arrow polynomial and Bar Natan's Zhe-construction.
    Robert G. Todd*, Mount Mercy University
    Heather Dye, McKendree University
    Aaron Kaestner, North Park University
    (1171-55-14)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Open Discussion.
• Sunday October 10, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Developments in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, III
  Special Session 12, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Margaret Doig, Creighton University MargaretDoig@creighton.edu
  Ying Hu, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Thomas Kindred, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A new perspective on a polynomial time knot polynomial.
    Robert John Quarles*, Louisiana State University
    (1171-55-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Connected sums and directed systems in knot Floer homologies.
    Sudipta Ghosh*, Louisiana State University
    Ian Zemke, Princeton University
    (1171-57-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Families of fundamental shadow links realized as links in the $3$-sphere.
    Sanjay L. Kumar*, The University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1171-57-82)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Virtual knot groups.
    Heather A. Dye*, McKendree University
    Aaron Kaestner, North Park University
    (1171-57-31)
  • 11:10 a.m.
    Using deep learning to generate knots with prescribed invariants.
    Amy Eubanks, Brigham Young University
    Mark Hughes*, Brigham Young University
    Jared Slone, Brigham Young University
    (1171-57-12)
• Sunday October 10, 2021, 3:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, IV
  Special Session 12, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Margaret Doig, Creighton University MargaretDoig@creighton.edu
  Ying Hu, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Thomas Kindred, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 3:10 p.m.
    A simple proof of the Crowell-Murasugi theorem.
    Thomas Kindred*, Wake Forest University
    (1171-57-249)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Closed Seifert surfaces and 0.5-solvable links.
    Sarah Seger*, Concordia College, Moorhead MN
    (1171-54-190)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Crossing numbers of Whitehead doubles.
    Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
    Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of South Alabama
    (1171-57-63)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Bounds on crossing number via knot diagram recovery.
    Robert Haraway, Independent
    Neil R. Hoffman*, Oklahoma State University
    Eric Sedgwick, Depaul University
    Saul Schleimer, Warwick Mathematics Institute
    (1171-57-232)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Open Discussion.

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