AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, April 18, 2020 03:30:05
Spring Western Sectional Meeting
- California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA
- May 2-3, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday)
- Meeting #1158
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu
Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated and may be more current than the printed program.
Special Session on Complexity in Low-Dimensional Topology
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Saturday May 2, 2020, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complexity in Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 108, Science 2 Building
Organizers:
Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis jcs@math.ucdavis.edu
Eric Sedgwick, DePaul University
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8:30 a.m.
Distance and intersection number in the reducing sphere complex.
Alexander Zupan*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(1158-57-222) -
9:00 a.m.
The further adventures of Bernhard and Jablan.
Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
(1158-57-197) -
9:30 a.m.
Combinatorial width parameters for 3-manifolds.
Kristóf Huszár*, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Jonathan Spreer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney
Uli Wagner, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
(1158-57-156) -
10:00 a.m.
Fundamental groups of 3-manifolds and finite state automata.
Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
(1158-57-200) -
10:30 a.m.
Alternating knots with large boundary slope diameter.
M. Ishikawa, Keio University
Thomas W. Mattman*, California State University, Chico
K. Namiki, Saitama University
K. Shimokawa, Saitama University
(1158-57-54)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday May 3, 2020, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complexity in Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 108, Science 2 Building
Organizers:
Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis jcs@math.ucdavis.edu
Eric Sedgwick, DePaul University
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8:30 a.m.
Separability of double cosets and conjugacy classes in n-manifold groups.
Emily Hamilton*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
(1158-57-109) -
9:00 a.m.
Strongly aperiodic subshifts of finite type on hyperbolic groups.
David B Cohen, Google
Chaim Goodman-Strauss, University of Arkansas
Yo'av Rieck*, University of Arkansas
(1158-20-323) -
9:30 a.m.
Concordance crosscut number and rational Witt classes.
Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada, Reno
(1158-57-277) -
10:00 a.m.
Link Crossing Number is NP-hard.
Arnaud de Mesmay*, CNRS, LIGM, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University
Eric Sedgwick, dePaul University
(1158-68-45) -
10:30 a.m.
An algorithm to decide if a link is alternating.
Joshua A. Howie*, University of California, Davis
(1158-57-267)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday May 3, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Complexity in Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 108, Science 2 Building
Organizers:
Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis jcs@math.ucdavis.edu
Eric Sedgwick, DePaul University
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3:00 p.m.
Computing Heegaard Genus is NP-Hard.
David Bachman*, Pitzer College
Ryan Derby-Talbot, Fulbright University Vietnam
Eric Sedgwick, DePau University
(1158-57-351) -
3:30 p.m.
Meridional rank and bridge number of knotted surfaces.
Puttipong Pongtanapaisan*, University of Iowa
Jason Joseph, University of Georgia
(1158-57-278) -
4:00 p.m.
Thin position through trisections of 4-manifolds.
Jose Roman Aranda Cuevas*, University of Iowa
(1158-57-72) -
4:30 p.m.
Spun triangulations of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Feng Luo, Rutgers University
Matthias Goerner, Pixar Animation Studios
Maria Trnkova*, UC Davis
(1158-57-213)
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3:00 p.m.
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