AMS :: 2025 Spring Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, April 23, 2025 03:30:04

Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated.

Saturday May 3, 2025, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Knotted Surfaces and $4$-manifolds, I
Room 226, Mathematics & Science (Building 38)
Organizers:
Patrick Orson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo patrickorson@gmail.com
Terrin Warren, California Polytechnic State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Slice disks modulo local knotting
  Jeffrey Meier*, Western Washington University
  Allison N. Miller, Swarthmore College
  (1207-57-48690)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Complexities of 4-Manifolds from Curve Graphs
  Puttipong Pongtanapaisan*, Arizona State University
  (1207-57-48677)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Weak Reduction for 2-Knots
  Samuel Monkman*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1207-57-48742)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Improving upper bounds for the minimal genus function in 4-manifolds
  Stefan Mihajlovic*, University of California, Davis
  (1207-57-48927)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Exotic traces and the shake genus
  Kai Foley Nakamura*, Stanford University
  (1207-57-48750)

Saturday May 3, 2025, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Knotted Surfaces and $4$-manifolds, II
Room 226, Mathematics & Science (Building 38)
Organizers:
Patrick Orson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo patrickorson@gmail.com
Terrin Warren, California Polytechnic State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discovering k-Friends Through k-RBG Links
  Qianhe Qin*, Stanford University
  (1207-57-48693)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Property S: An extension of Generalized Property R to CP2
  Trevor Douglas Oliveira-Smith*, UC Davis
  (1207-57-48719)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Skein Lasagna Modules and Categorified Projectors
  Melissa Zhang*, University of California, Davis
  Ian A Sullivan, UC Davis
  (1207-57-48660)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Exotically knotted surfaces and Bar-Natan lasagna modules
  Ian A Sullivan*, UC Davis
  (1207-57-48644)

Sunday May 4, 2025, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Knotted Surfaces and $4$-manifolds, III
Room 226, Mathematics & Science (Building 38)
Organizers:
Patrick Orson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo patrickorson@gmail.com
Terrin Warren, California Polytechnic State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Space of symplectic structures and diffeomorphisms
  Luya WANG*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1207-57-48715)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links in the 4 ball
  Orsola A Capovilla-Searle*, UC Davis
  (1207-57-48647)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Braided surfaces and symplectic topology
  Laura P. Starkston*, University of California, Davis
  (1207-57-48638)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weinstein handlebody diagrams for the complement of surfaces in $S^2\times S^2$.
  Daniela Cortes Rodriguez*, University of California, Davis
  (1207-57-48618)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Diagrams of Lagrangian Surfaces from a Trisected Perspective
  Shintaro Fushida-Hardy*, Stanford University
  Laura Wakelin, King's College London
  (1207-57-48744)