Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting (formerly at the University of South Alabama)

• now meeting virtually, CST (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
• November 20-21, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1173

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

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

• Saturday November 20, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Low-dimensional Topology, I
  Special Session 3, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of South Alabama crslee@southalabama.edu
  Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fundamental heaps and cocycle invariants for compact orientable surfaces with boundary.
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    Emanuele Zappala*, University of Tartu
    (1173-57-61)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some fake 4-manifolds.
    Daniel Kasprowski, University of Bonn
    Mark Powell, Durham University
    Arunima Ray*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    (1173-57-179)
• Saturday November 20, 2021, 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Low-dimensional Topology, II
  Special Session 3, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of South Alabama crslee@southalabama.edu
  Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Informal Discussion.
• Saturday November 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Low-dimensional Topology, III
  Special Session 3, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of South Alabama crslee@southalabama.edu
  Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Slicing knots in definite manifolds.
    Alexandra Kjuchukova*, University of Notre Dame
    Allison N Miller, Swarthmore College
    Arunima Ray, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics -- Bonn
    Sumeyra Sakalli, University of Arkansas
    (1173-57-318)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diagrams of immersed surfaces and homotopies of surfaces.
    Mark Hughes, Brigham Young University
    Seungwon Kim, IBS Centre for Geometry and Physics
    Maggie Miller*, Stanford University
    (1173-57-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonorientable 4-ball genus of torus knots.
    Jonathan Simone*, Georgia Tech
    Fraser Binns, Boston College
    Sungkyung Kang, Center for Geometry and Physics, Institute for Basic Science
    Paula Truol, ETH Zurich
    (1173-57-246)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Four manifolds with no smooth spines.
    Igor Belegradek, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Beibei Liu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1173-57-137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Homology Concordance and an Infinite Rank Free Subgroup.
    Hugo Zhou*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1173-57-21)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Embedding closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds in minimal volume hyperbolic 4 manifolds.
    Michelle Chu*, University of Illinois Chicago
    Alan Reid, Rice University
    (1173-57-104)
• Sunday November 21, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Low-dimensional Topology, IV
  Special Session 3, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of South Alabama crslee@southalabama.edu
  Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Circular vs. Linear Heegaard Splittings.
    Kenneth L Baker*, University of Miami
    Fabiola Manjarrez-Gutiérrez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1173-57-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coloured Jones and Alexander polynomials unified through Lagrangian intersections in configuration spaces.
    Cristina Ana-Maria Palmer-Anghel*, University of Geneva
    (1173-57-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal and near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links.
    Adam M Lowrance*, Vassar College
    (1173-57-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Left-orderable slopes of classical pretzel knots.
    Anh T Tran*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1173-57-63)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Informal Discussion.
• Sunday November 21, 2021, 1:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Low-dimensional Topology, V
  Special Session 3, American Mathematical Society
  Organizers:
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of South Alabama crslee@southalabama.edu
  Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Fractional Dehn twists and left-orders on the mapping class group.
    Hannah Turner*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Diana Hubbard, City University of New York
    (1173-57-160)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Jones diameter and crossing number of knots.
    Efstratia Kalfagianni*, Michihan State University
    (1173-57-60)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bi-Orderability and Branched L-Space Knots.
    Jonathan C Johnson*, Oklahoma State University
    (1173-57-152)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topological Symmetry Groups of Algebraically Trivial Theta Graphs.
    Miriam Kuzbary*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Allison H Moore, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1173-57-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The average genus of a 2-bridge knot grows linearly with respect to crossing number.
    Moshe Cohen*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
    (1173-57-126)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The quantum trace for LRY skein algebras.
    Wade Bloomquist*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Hiroaki Karuo, Research Institution for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
    (1173-57-278)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Unoriented skein exact triangles in equivariant singular instanton Floer theory.
    Christopher Scaduto*, University of Miami
    Aliakbar Daemi, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1173-57-186)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Constructions toward topological applications of U(1) x U(1) equivariant Khovanov homology.
    Melissa Zhang*, University of Georgia
    Rostislav Akhmechet, University of Virginia
    (1173-57-159)