Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 15, 2011 00:29:54

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011 (Thursday - Sunday)
Meeting #1067

• Friday January 7, 2011, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Knots, Links, 3-Manifolds, and Physics, I
  Borgne Room, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
  Organizers:
  Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University rako@tulane.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Virtual Knots, Khovanov Homology and Quantum Information.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1067-57-1589)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Categorification in knot and graph theory.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1067-57-1825)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Commensurability classes of hyperbolic knot complements and hidden symmetries.
    Neil R Hoffman*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1067-57-296)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Two-fold branched covers.
    Dave Auckly*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1067-57-924)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tightness in contact metric manifolds.
    John Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
    Patrick Massot, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay
    (1067-57-1146)
• Saturday January 8, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Knots, Links, 3-Manifolds, and Physics, II
  La Galerie 5, 2nd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University rako@tulane.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Helicity and Energy Bounds For Vector Fields.
    Jason H Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University
    (1067-57-2065)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    New perspectives on helicity.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1067-57-2260)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Search for Higher Helicities.
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, Haverford College
    Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
    Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
    Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
    Paul Melvin, Bryn Mawr College
    David Shea Vela-Vick, Columbia University
    (1067-57-1502)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimally Immersed Planar Curves under Möbius Energy.
    Ryan P Dunning*, St. Mary's University
    (1067-49-937)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Self-organization resulting from conservation of magnetic helicity, a distributed form of linkages; applications to lab and solar phenomena.
    Paul M Bellan*, Caltech
    (1067-78-1149)