AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:45

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Saturday November 9, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Low-Dimensional Manifolds, I
Room 221, Business Administration
Organizers:
J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama carter@mathstat.usouthal.edu
Masahico Saito, University of South Florida saito@math.usf.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Skein relations for oriented link invariants arising from the double of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras.
  David E. Raford*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (982-16-271)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quaternions and Virtual Knots.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (982-57-218)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Virtual Knots and the 3-strand Jones Polynomial.
  Heather A Dye*, The University of Illinois at Chicago
  (982-57-24)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Effects of Twisting on Mahler Measure of Alexander Polynomials.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
  Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
  (982-57-228)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lifting representations of knot group commutator subgroups.
  Daniel S. Silver, University of South Alabama
  Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (982-57-253)

Saturday November 9, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Low-Dimensional Manifolds, II
Room 221, Business Administration
Organizers:
J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama carter@mathstat.usouthal.edu
Masahico Saito, University of South Florida saito@math.usf.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Planar algebras generated by stongly regular graphs.
  Brian W Curtin*, University of South Florida
  (982-05-266)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantum Invariants away from Roots of Unity.
  Charles D. Frohman*, University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
  (982-57-46)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Shadow world link invariant away from roots of unity.
  Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
  (982-57-124)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Kauffman Bracket Skein Module of a Twist Knot Exterior.
  Doug Bullock, Boise State University
  Walter Lo Faro*, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
  (982-57-278)
- 4:30 p.m.
  4-moves and 4th Burnside group of links: Nakanishi and Kawauchi conjectures.
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, GWU
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, GWU
  (982-57-200)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Rational moves and $p$th Burnside groups of links.
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski*, GWU
  Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
  (982-57-199)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Constructing links with the same quantum invariants.
  Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
  (982-57-227)

Sunday November 10, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Low-Dimensional Manifolds, III
Room 221, Business Administration
Organizers:
J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama carter@mathstat.usouthal.edu
Masahico Saito, University of South Florida saito@math.usf.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Quandle Cocycle Invariants and Alexander Matrices.
  Marina Appiou Nikiforou*, University of South Florida
  (982-55-239)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quandle colorings of classical knots and knotted surfaces.
  Angela K Harris*, University of South Alabama
  (982-57-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A spectral sequence in quandle homology.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida
  (982-57-232)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Computation of quandle cocycle invariants of knots using certain simple quandles.
  Matias A Gra\~na*, MIT and University of Buenos Aires
  Anatoly Preygel, Montgomery Blair High School
  (982-57-168)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Classification of finite Alexander quandles.
  V Sam Nelson*, Louisiana State University
  (982-55-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quadratic quandles and their link invariants.
  R A Litherland*, Louisiana State University
  (982-57-146)

Sunday November 10, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Low-Dimensional Manifolds, IV
Room 221, Business Administration
Organizers:
J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama carter@mathstat.usouthal.edu
Masahico Saito, University of South Florida saito@math.usf.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Hopf-algebra objects and $3$-manifolds.
  Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa
  (982-57-254)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Integral bases for TQFT Modules and unimodular representations of mapping class groups.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  Gregor Masbaum, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu (UMR 7586 du CNRS)
  Paul van Wamelen, Louisiana State University
  (982-57-172)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Search for finite length TQFT's for the Casson Invariant.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (982-57-237)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Three-manifold invariants with values in the cyclotomic completion of the polynomial ring.
  Thang T. Le*, SUNY Buffalo
  (982-57-207)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the Combinatorics of Legendrian knots.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, LSU
  (982-57-234)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The universal order one invariant of framed knots in the total spaces of $S^1$-bundles over orientable surfaces $F\neq S^2, S^1\times S^1$.
  Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  (982-57-195)

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