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2012 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
George Washington University, Washington, DC
March 17-18, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1080
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory
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Saturday March 17, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, I
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
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8:30 a.m.
Khovanov Homology and Quantum Computation.
Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1080-57-152) -
9:00 a.m.
On certain coefficients of the colored Jones polynomial.
Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
Cody Armond, Louisiana State University
(1080-57-377) -
9:30 a.m.
Twisted Alexander polynomials of 2-bridge knots.
Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
Patrick D Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
(1080-57-329) -
10:00 a.m.
A categorification of the Tutte polynomial.
Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
Adam Lowrance*, University of Iowa
(1080-57-269)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 17, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, II
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
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1:30 p.m.
Diagrammatical algebra.
Mikhail Khovanov*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
(1080-81-335) -
2:00 p.m.
Diagram algebras in Khovanov- and Heegaard Floer-type homology theories.
Denis Auroux, University of California, Berkeley
J. Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College
Stephan M. Wehrli*, Syracuse University
(1080-57-254) -
2:30 p.m.
Khovanov homology for virtual knots.
Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Aaron Kaestner, North Park University
(1080-57-120) -
3:00 p.m.
Duality aspects of Khovanov homology.
Oleg Viro*, Stony Brook University
(1080-57-370) -
3:30 p.m.
The Pure Virtual Braid Group is Quadratic.
Peter Lee*, University of Toronto
(1080-54-144) -
4:00 p.m.
Picture TQFTs, categorification, and localization.
Benjamin Cooper, University of Virginia
Slava Krushkal*, University of Virginia
(1080-57-223)
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1:30 p.m.
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Sunday March 18, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, III
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
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8:30 a.m.
Classical theta functions in a quantum group perspective.
Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
(1080-81-257) -
9:00 a.m.
Quantum representations of the mapping class group.
Michael Fitzpatrick, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa
Charles D Frohman, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation
(1080-57-260) -
9:30 a.m.
On minimal generating sets of skein modules.
Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
(1080-57-302) -
10:00 a.m.
The Turaev-Viro Endomorphism and the Jones Polynomial.
Xuanting Cai, Louisiana State University
Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
(1080-57-265) -
10:30 a.m.
Combinatorial Legendrian Contact Homology in Contact Seifert Fibered Spaces.
Joan E. Licata*, Institute for Advanced Study / Australian National University
Joshua M. Sabloff, Haverford College
(1080-57-208)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday March 18, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homology Theories Motivated by Knot Theory, IV
Room 113, Monroe Hall
Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
Hao Wu, George Washington University
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3:00 p.m.
Extending the Dehn quandle to shears and foliations on the torus.
Reza Chamanara, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Jun Hu, Brooklyn College CUNY
Joel Zablow*, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
(1080-57-41) -
3:30 p.m.
Connected quandles associated with pointed abelian groups.
Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
W. Edwin Clark, USF
Mohamed Elhamdadi, USF
Xiang-dong Hou, USF
Timothy Yeatman, USF
(1080-57-243) -
4:00 p.m.
Hom Quandles.
Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1080-57-110) -
4:30 p.m.
Mayer-Vietoris sequence for homology of multispindles.
Krzysztof K Putyra*, Columbia University
Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University and Gdansk University
(1080-18-375)
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3:00 p.m.
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