Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting (formerly at Pennsylvania State University)

• now meeting virtually, EDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society)
• October 3-4, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1160

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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.

• Saturday October 3, 2020, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Groups and 3-manifolds, I
  Special Session 2, AMS
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University hongbin.sun@rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Infinitely many virtual geometric triangulations.
    David Futer*, Temple University
    Neil R. Hoffman, Oklahoma State University
    (1160-57-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Searching for marked Kleinian groups.
    Andrew Yarmola*, Princeton University
    (1160-57-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some curvature bounds for least area fibers in fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Franco E Vargas Pallete*, Yale University
    James Farre, Yale University
    (1160-53-240)
• Saturday October 3, 2020, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Groups and 3-manifolds, II
  Special Session 2, AMS
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University hongbin.sun@rutgers.edu
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Veering triangulations and Thurston's norm.
    Michael Landry*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1160-57-111)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations.
    Michael Landry, Washington University in Saint Louis
    Yair Minsky, Yale University
    Samuel J. Taylor*, Temple University
    (1160-57-87)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Lower Bounds on Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
    Colin Adams*, Williams College
    Michele Capovilla-Searle, Case Western University
    Darin Li, Williams College
    Lily Li, University of California-Berkeley
    Jacob McErlean, Boston College
    Alex Simons, Williams College
    Natalie Stewart, MIT
    Xiwen Wang, Williams College
    (1160-57-159)
• Saturday October 3, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Groups and 3-manifolds, III
  Special Session 2, AMS
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University hongbin.sun@rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hierarchical hyperbolicity of graph products.
    Daniel Berlyne*, CUNY Graduate Center
    Jacob Russell, Rice University
    (1160-20-91)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Actions of big mapping class groups on the arc graph.
    Carolyn R Abbott*, Columbia University
    Nick Miller, University of California, Berkeley
    Priyam Patel, University of Utah
    (1160-20-298)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mapping class groups, vector fields, and holomorphic differentials.
    Aaron Calderon*, Yale University
    Nick Salter, Columbia University
    (1160-20-192)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mapping class groups with the Rokhlin property.
    Justin Lanier, University of Chicago
    Nicholas G Vlamis*, CUNY Queens College
    (1160-57-118)
• Sunday October 4, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Groups and 3-manifolds, IV
  Special Session 2, AMS
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University hongbin.sun@rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Incoherence of free-by-free and surface-by-free groups.
    Robert Kropholler, Tufts University
    Stefano Vidussi, University of California, Riverside
    Genevieve Walsh*, Tufts University
    (1160-20-251)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some remarks on linear representations of the mapping class groups.
    Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
    Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
    Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University
    (1160-57-196)
• Sunday October 4, 2020, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Groups and 3-manifolds, V
  Special Session 2, AMS
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University hongbin.sun@rutgers.edu
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Volumes and filling collections of multicurves.
    Tommaso Cremaschi*, MSRI
    (1160-57-103)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Tangle decompositions of alternating link complements.
    Joel Hass, University of California, Davis
    Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
    Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, Rutgers University, Newark
    (1160-57-320)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Characterizing $S^2\hookrightarrow\mathbb{R}^3$ via the crease set.
    William Menasco, University at Buffalo
    Margaret Nichols*, University at Buffalo
    (1160-57-340)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    New Quantum Invariants for Links in the Thickened Torus with Volume Conjecture Behavior---Preliminary Report.
    Joseph Boninger*, Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1160-54-226)
• Sunday October 4, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Groups and 3-manifolds, VI
  Special Session 2, AMS
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Hongbin Sun, Rutgers University hongbin.sun@rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Braids and Slice Genus Bounds.
    Diana Hubbard*, Brooklyn College, CUNY
    K. Kawamuro, University of Iowa
    F. C. Kose, University of Texas Austin
    G. Martin, Boston College
    O. Plamenevskaya, Stony Brook University
    K. Raoux, Michigan State University
    L. Truong, University of Michigan
    H. Turner, University of Texas Austin
    (1160-57-288)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Effective special covers of alternating links.
    Edgar A. Bering IV*, Technion
    David Futer, Temple University
    (1160-57-297)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Plane curve singularities and mapping class groups.
    Pablo Portilla Cuadrado, CIMAT
    Nick Salter*, Columbia University
    (1160-57-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Curves on the torus intersecting at most k times.
    Tarik Aougab*, Haverford College
    Jonah Gaster, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (1160-51-291)