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Fall Western Sectional Meeting
California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
October 24-25, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1114
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory
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Saturday October 24, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, I
Room 1112, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
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8:00 a.m.
Representations of loop braid groups.
Liang Chang*, Texas A&M University
(1114-57-298) -
8:30 a.m.
Sheaves on topological quandles.
Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida, Tampa FL
(1114-57-297) -
9:00 a.m.
Checkerboard coloring and virtual knot invariants.
Aaron Kaestner*, North Park university
(1114-54-289) -
9:30 a.m.
Some Geometric Applications of Virtual Knot Theory.
M. Chrisman*, Monmouth University
A. Kaestner, North Park University
R. Todd, Mount Mercy Univesity
(1114-57-44) -
10:00 a.m.
Checkerboard framings and virtual links.
Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
(1114-57-37) -
10:30 a.m.
Rotational Virtual Links and Quantum Link Invariants.
Louis H Kauffman*, UIC
(1114-57-57)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 24, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, II
Room 1112, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
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3:00 p.m.
Cocycle multipliers of Yang-Baxter operators.
Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
(1114-57-270) -
3:30 p.m.
Rack relations and homology.
Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
(1114-57-135) -
4:00 p.m.
Fractal Simplices.
J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
(1114-57-174) -
4:30 p.m.
Tangle Functors at Roots of Unity.
Nathan Druivenga*, The Unversity of Iowa
Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
Sanjay Kumar, The University of Iowa
(1114-57-233) -
5:00 p.m.
Representations of the Skein Algebra at roots of Unity.
Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
(1114-57-79) -
5:30 p.m.
The Coarse Geometry of the Kakimizu complex.
Robin T. Wilson*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Jesse Johnson, Google
Roberto Pelayo, University of Hawai'i, Hilo
(1114-54-111)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday October 25, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, III
Room 1112, Steven G. Mihaylo Hall
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
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8:00 a.m.
Folded Ribbon Knots in the Plane.
Elizabeth Denne*, Washington & Lee University
(1114-57-90) -
8:30 a.m.
Asymptotics of random knot diagrams.
Harrison Chapman*, University of Georgia
(1114-05-136) -
9:00 a.m.
Subknots in Tight Knots, KnotPlot Knots, and Random Knots.
Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
(1114-57-108) -
9:30 a.m.
Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph.
Ryan Blair, California State University, Long Beach
Marion Campisi, Stanford University
Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University
Scott Taylor, Colby College
Maggy Tomova*, The University of Iowa
(1114-57-102) -
10:00 a.m.
Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph.
Ryan Blair, California State University Long Beach
Marion Campisi*, San Jose State University
Jesse Johnson, Google
Scott A. Taylor, Colby College
Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
(1114-57-131) -
10:30 a.m.
Random Knot Diagrams.
Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Harrison Chapman, University of Georgia
Matt Mastin, MailChimp, Inc.
(1114-57-112)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 25, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, IV
Organizers:
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
Aaron M. Kaestner, North Park University
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Matt Rathbun, California State University, Fullerton
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3:00 p.m.
Unital Shelves.
Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
(1114-54-101) -
3:30 p.m.
Pulling-force-induced elongation and alignment effects on entanglement and knotting characteristics of linear polymers in a melt.
Eleni Panagiotou*, University of California Santa Barbara
Martin Kroeger, ETH Zurich
(1114-82-109) -
4:00 p.m.
The number of surfaces of fixed genus in an alternating link complement.
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis
Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, University of California, Davis
(1114-57-239) -
4:30 p.m.
Movie moves for singular link cobordisms in 4-dimensional space.
Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
(1114-57-62) -
5:00 p.m.
Models of Knotting in Polymeric System.
Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1114-57-96) -
5:30 p.m.
Bridge position for Seifert surfaces.
Carson S. Rogers*, University of California, Davis
(1114-57-304)
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3:00 p.m.
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