AMS :: 2024 Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, September 22, 2024 03:30:04

Saturday September 14, 2024, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Link invariants and surfaces in 4-manifolds I
McKinney 3.03.16, McKinney Humanities Building
Organizers:
Michael Willis, Texas A&M University msw188@gmail.com
Sherry Gong, Texas A&M University
- 9:00 a.m.
  New perspectives on symmetric unions
  Vitalijs Brejevs, University of Vienna
  Alessio Di Prisa, University of Pisa
  Gary Dunkerley*, The University of Georgia
  Zsombor Feher, University of Oxford
  (1198-54-37051)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the symmetric braid index of ribbon knots
  Vitalijs Brejevs, University of Vienna
  Feride Ceren Kose*, The University of Georgia
  (1198-57-37062)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Persistent Legendrian contact homology
  Maya Basu, University of California, Berkeley
  Austin Christian*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ethan Clayton, University of Illinois
  Daniel Irvine, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Fredrick Mooers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Weizhe Shen, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1198-53-37116)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Exotic diffeomorphisms and their applications
  Hokuto Konno, University of Tokyo
  Abhishek Mallick*, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
  Masaki Taniguchi, Kyoto University
  (1198-57-37002)

Saturday September 14, 2024, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Link invariants and surfaces in 4-manifolds II
McKinney 3.03.16, McKinney Humanities Building
Organizers:
Michael Willis, Texas A&M University msw188@gmail.com
Sherry Gong, Texas A&M University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Kirby Belts and the Skein Lasagna Module of $S^2\times S^2$
  Ian A Sullivan*, UC Davis
  (1198-57-37126)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Khovanov homology and exotic $4$-manifolds
  Qiuyu Ren*, University of California, Berkeley
  Michael Willis, Texas A&M University
  (1198-57-36785)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Odd Cooper-Krushkal projectors
  Dean Spyropoulos*, Michigan State University
  (1198-57-37137)

Sunday September 15, 2024, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Link invariants and surfaces in 4-manifolds III
McKinney 3.03.16, McKinney Humanities Building
Organizers:
Michael Willis, Texas A&M University msw188@gmail.com
Sherry Gong, Texas A&M University
- 9:00 a.m.
  A topological model for the HOMFLY-PT polynomial
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, Texas State University
  (1198-57-36999)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Central elements in the $SL_d$ skein algebra of a surface
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
  Vijay Higgins*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1198-57-37251)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Investigations in Knot Positivity
  Lizzie Buchanan*, University of Iowa
  (1198-57-37107)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Dihedral Arf Invariants and Genus Bounds
  Charles Ransome Stine*, New York University
  (1198-57-37154)

Sunday September 15, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Link invariants and surfaces in 4-manifolds IV
McKinney 3.03.16, McKinney Humanities Building
Organizers:
Michael Willis, Texas A&M University msw188@gmail.com
Sherry Gong, Texas A&M University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Non-split alternating links bound unique minimal genus Seifert surfaces in the 4-ball
  Seungwon Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
  Maggie Miller*, University of Texas at Austin
  Jaehoon Yoo, Indiana University Bloomington
  (1198-57-37065)
- 2:30 p.m.
  $\mathbb {Z}$-Disks in $\mathbb {C}P^2$
  Irving Dai*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (1198-57-37165)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spinal open books and symplectic fillings
  Hyunki Min, University of California, Los Angeles
  Agniva Roy, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Luya Wang*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1198-57-37152)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Involutive Floer homology and sliceness obstruction
  Sally Collins*, Michigan State University
  (1198-57-37344)