Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting (formerly at Brown University)

• now meeting virtually, EDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
• March 20-21, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1165

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

AMS 2021 Spring Sectional Meetings will be held VIRTUALLY on the originally planned dates. Further details will be posted as soon as they are available. Send questions to meet@ams.org.

• Saturday March 20, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Topology, I
  Special Session 17, AMS
  Organizers:
  Paul Feehan, Rutgers University feehan@math.rutgers.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Framed instanton homology and Dehn surgery.
    John A. Baldwin, Boston College
    Steven Sivek*, Imperial College London
    (1165-57-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Semi-infinite homology of Floer spaces.
    Piotr Suwara*, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
    (1165-58-152)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gauge theory and generalized Casson invariants.
    Shaoyun Bai, Princeton University
    Boyu Zhang*, Princeton University
    (1165-57-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Equivariant singular instanton homology.
    Christopher Scaduto*, University of Miami
    Aliakbar Daemi, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1165-57-174)
• Saturday March 20, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Topology, II
  Special Session 17, AMS
  Organizers:
  Paul Feehan, Rutgers University feehan@math.rutgers.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Equivariant Lagrangian Floer homology and extended Field theory.
    Guillem Cazassus*, University of Oxford
    (1165-57-255)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Rank inequalities for the Heegaard Floer homology of branched covers.
    Kristen Hendricks*, Rutgers University
    Tye Lidman, North Carolina State University
    Robert Lipshitz, University of Oregon
    (1165-57-66)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Monopole Floer homology for 3-manifolds with toroidal boundary.
    Donghao Wang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1165-57-166)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Involutive Heegaard Floer homology and surgeries.
    Kristen Hendricks, Rutgers University
    Jennifer Hom, Georgia Tech
    Matthew Stoffregen, Michigan State University
    Ian Zemke*, Princeton University
    (1165-57-155)
• Saturday March 20, 2021, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Topology, III
  Special Session 17, AMS
  Organizers:
  Paul Feehan, Rutgers University feehan@math.rutgers.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sutured instanton homology and Heegaard diagrams.
    John A Baldwin*, Boston College
    Zhenkun Li, Stanford University
    Fan Ye, University of Cambridge
    (1165-57-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gluing mASD connections on cylindrical end 4-manifolds.
    David L Duncan*, James Madison University
    (1165-53-81)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-orientable cobordisms and torsion in Floer homology.
    Sherry Gong*, Stanford
    Marco Marengon, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    (1165-58-139)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Euler characteristics of sutured Instanton Floer homology.
    Zhenkun Li*, Stanford
    Fan Ye, Cambridge University
    (1165-53-101)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday March 21, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
  Special Session 17, AMS
  Organizers:
  Paul Feehan, Rutgers University feehan@math.rutgers.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Khovanov-theoretic curve-invariants of 4-ended tangles: structural results and their applications.
    Artem Kotelskiy*, Indiana University
    Liam Watson, University of British Columbia
    Claudius Zibrowius, University of Regensburg
    (1165-57-83)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Khovanov homology and cobordisms between split links.
    Onkar Singh Gujral, Kolgata, West Bengal Bengal, India
    Adam Simon Levine*, Duke University
    (1165-57-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Torus Signature and Periodic Rho Invariant.
    Langte Ma*, Simons Center at Stony Brook University
    (1165-57-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Toroidal integer homology spheres have irreducible SU(2)-representations.
    Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo*, University of Notre Dame
    Tye Lidman, NC State University
    Raphael Zentner, Universität Regensburg
    (1165-57-73)
• Sunday March 21, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Topology, V
  Special Session 17, AMS
  Organizers:
  Paul Feehan, Rutgers University feehan@math.rutgers.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Transverse invariants and exotic surfaces in the 4-ball.
    Andras Juhasz*, University of Oxford
    Ian Zemke, Princeton University
    (1165-57-13)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Lefschetz fibrations and symplectic geography.
    Inanc Baykur*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Noriyuki Hamada, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1165-57-20)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Counting embedded curves in symplectic six-manifolds.
    Aleksander Doan*, Columbia University and Trinity College, Cambridge
    (1165-53-249)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Symplectic fillings and cobordisms of lens spaces.
    John B Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Agniva Roy, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1165-57-70)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday March 21, 2021, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory, Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Topology, VI
  Special Session 17, AMS
  Organizers:
  Paul Feehan, Rutgers University feehan@math.rutgers.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Virtual Morse theory and $\operatorname{SO}(3)$ Monopoles.
    Paul Feehan, Rutgers University
    Thomas Leness*, Florida International University
    (1165-58-11)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exotic Diffeomorphisms and Embeddings.
    Dave Auckly*, Kansas State University
    Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
    (1165-58-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The family Seiberg-Witten invariants and the symplectormorphism group of 4-manifolds.
    Jianfeng Lin*, UC San Diego
    (1165-58-76)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: From 0-surgery homeomorphisms to candidates for exotic definite 4-manifolds.
    Ciprian Manolescu, Stanford
    Lisa Piccirillo*, MIT
    (1165-57-163)