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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 18-20, 2013 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1094
Associate secretaries:
Georgia M. Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Low Dimensions
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Friday October 18, 2013, 4:45 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Low Dimensions, I
Room 116, Eads Hall
Organizers:
William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
Rachel Roberts, Washington University in St. Louis roberts@math.wustl.edu
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4:45 p.m.
Towards a fibered face theory for free-by-cyclic groups.
Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University, Department of Mathematics
(1094-57-207) -
5:15 p.m.
Dynamics on free-by-cyclic groups.
Spencer Dowdall, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois Urbana--Champaign
(1094-20-235) -
5:45 p.m.
Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes with dilatation of degree 2g.
Hyunshik Shin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1094-57-378) -
6:15 p.m.
Symmetries of Covering Spaces.
Rebecca R Winarski*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1094-20-288)
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4:45 p.m.
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Saturday October 19, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Low Dimensions, II
Room 116, Eads Hall
Organizers:
William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
Rachel Roberts, Washington University in St. Louis roberts@math.wustl.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Seifert surfaces and sutured manifolds.
Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
(1094-57-322) -
9:00 a.m.
Exceptional hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
David Gabai, Princeton University
Maria Trnkova*, Caltech
(1094-57-389) -
9:30 a.m.
Structure and rigidity of totally periodic pseudo-Anosov flows in graph manifolds.
Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
Thierry Barbot, Universite d'Avignon
(1094-57-143) -
10:00 a.m.
Quasigeodesic flows and pseudo-Anosov dynamics.
Steven Frankel*, Yale
(1094-57-293) -
10:30 a.m.
Discussion
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 19, 2013, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Low Dimensions, III
Room 116, Eads Hall
Organizers:
William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
Rachel Roberts, Washington University in St. Louis roberts@math.wustl.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Khovanov homology and trivial braid detection.
John A. Baldwin, Boston College
J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Boston College
Stephan M. Wehrli, Syracuse University
(1094-57-335) -
3:00 p.m.
A contact invariant in sutured monopole homology and Lagrangian concordance.
John A Baldwin*, Boston College
Steven Sivek, Princeton University
(1094-57-232) -
3:30 p.m.
Floer homology and non-zero degree maps.
Cagri Karakurt, University of Texas at Austin
Tye Lidman*, University of Texas at Austin
Ciprian Manolescu, University of California, Los Angeles
(1094-57-112) -
4:00 p.m.
Casson towers and filtrations of the smooth knot concordance group.
Arunima Ray*, Rice University
(1094-57-340) -
4:30 p.m.
Positive factorizations and symplectic fillings.
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris*, Univeristy of Arkansas
Inanc Baykur, University of Massachusetts
(1094-57-374)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 20, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Low Dimensions, IV
Room 116, Eads Hall
Organizers:
William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
Rachel Roberts, Washington University in St. Louis roberts@math.wustl.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The self-linking number of transverse links and sharpness of Bennequin-Eliashberg inequality.
Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
Tetsuya Ito, RIMS, Kyoto University
(1094-57-214) -
9:30 a.m.
Overtwisted disc in planer open book.
Tetsuya Ito*, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
Keiko Kawamuro, Department of Mathematics, the University of Iowa
(1094-57-139) -
10:00 a.m.
Plamenevskaya's transverse invariant and the self-linking number.
Alan F. Diaz*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1094-57-376) -
10:30 a.m.
The generalized Jones conjecture for closed braids.
Douglas LaFountain*, Western Illinois University
William Menasco, University at Buffalo
(1094-57-44) -
11:00 a.m.
Surgery constructions of tight contact structures on Seifert fibered spaces.
John Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
(1094-57-104)
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9:00 a.m.
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