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Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
November 14-15, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1115
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds
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Saturday November 14, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Adam Lowrance, Vassar College adlowrance@vassar.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Link diagrams with low Turaev genus.
Seungwon Kim*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
(1115-57-273) -
8:30 a.m.
Turaev Genus and Alternating decompositions.
Cody W. Armond*, University of South Alabama
Adam M. Lowrance, Vassar College
(1115-57-373) -
9:00 a.m.
Signatures and Turaev Genera of Knots.
Oliver Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
(1115-57-265) -
9:30 a.m.
Taut foliations and cyclic branched covers of satellite knots.
Cameron McA. Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
Tye Lidman, Institute for Advanced Study
(1115-57-316) -
10:00 a.m.
Nugatory crossings and symmetric unions.
Allison H Moore*, Rice University
Tye Lidman, Institute for Advanced Study
(1115-57-110) -
10:30 a.m.
On the topological slice genus of torus knots.
Peter Feller*, Boston College
(1115-57-317)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 14, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Adam Lowrance, Vassar College adlowrance@vassar.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Volumes and volume densities of hyperbolic knots and links.
Colin Adams*, Williams College
Aaron Calderon, University of Nebraska
Xinyi Jiang, Stanford University
Alexander Kastner, Williams College
Gregory Kehne, Williams College
Nathaniel Mayer, Harvard University
Mia Smith, Williams College
(1115-57-189) -
3:30 p.m.
Determinant density spectrum and biperiodic alternating links.
Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island \& The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Columbia University
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island \& The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jessica Purcell, Monash University, and IAS
(1115-57-364) -
4:00 p.m.
Rotational Virtual Links and Quantum Link Invariants.
Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1115-57-104) -
4:30 p.m.
Detecting Non-Invertible Links with Virtual Covers.
Micah Chrisman*, Monmouth University
(1115-57-222) -
5:00 p.m.
$\sigma$-Adequate Link Diagrams and the Tutte Polynomial.
Adam Giambrone*, University of Connecticut
(1115-57-234) -
5:30 p.m.
Braid-like Mapping Classes.
Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University/American Mathematical Society
(1115-57-108)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday November 15, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds, III
Room 104, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Adam Lowrance, Vassar College adlowrance@vassar.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Pretzel Links and q-Series.
Mustafa Hajij*, University of South Florida
Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
(1115-57-56) -
8:30 a.m.
On the AJ conjecture for cable knots.
Anh T Tran*, The University of Texas at Dallas
(1115-57-89) -
9:00 a.m.
Tangle Functors at Roots of Unity.
Nathan Druivenga*, The University of Iowa
Charles Frohman, The University of Iowa
Sanjay Kumar, The Unversity of Iowa
(1115-57-224) -
9:30 a.m.
The Kauffman Polynomial of Periodic Links.
Kyle Istvan*, Louisiana State University
Khaled Qazaqzeh, Kuwait University
Ayman Abouzaid, Kuwait University
(1115-54-259) -
10:00 a.m.
Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion.
Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
(1115-57-208) -
10:30 a.m.
Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology for pointed links.
John A. Baldwin, Boston College
Adam Simon Levine*, Princeton University
Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton University
(1115-57-206)
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8:00 a.m.
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