Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 23, 2010 00:39:22

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1056

• Wednesday January 13, 2010, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Link and 3-manifold Invariants, I
  Room 3016, 3rd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Heegaard genus, cut number, weak $p$-congruence, and quantum invariants.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State Univiersity
    (1056-57-619)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A dimer model for the twisted Alexander polynomial.
    Moshe Cohen, Louisiana State University
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
    (1056-57-1827)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Graph-based methods establishing nontriviality of state cycle Khovanov homology classes.
    Andrew Elliott*, Rice University
    (1056-57-47)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology.
    J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Boston College
    Stephan M. Wehrli, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu; Universite Paris 7
    (1056-51-1342)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Topologically slice knots with non-trivial Alexander polynomial.
    Matthew E Hedden*, Michigan State University
    Charles Livingston, Indiana University
    Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
    (1056-57-1085)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Walks Along Braids and the Colored Jones Polynomial.
    Cody Armond*, Louisiana State University
    (1056-57-1329)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On Jones polynomials of closed braids with a full twist.
    Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
    Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
    (1056-57-1373)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Ribbon-graph tensor products, relative polynomial invariants and applications to links.
    Neal W. Stoltzfus*, Louisiana State University
    Brittan Farmer, University of Michigan
    (1056-57-1436)
• Thursday January 14, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Link and 3-manifold Invariants, II
  Room 3016, 3rd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Reidemeister Torsion and the A-polynomial.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    (1056-57-999)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum form of the Reidemeister torsion of a knot complement.
    Charles D Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1056-57-1173)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher Mahler measures.
    Matilde N Lalin*, University of Alberta
    (1056-11-442)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    First coefficient of the Conway polynomial of virtual links.
    Sergei Chmutov*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
    (1056-57-705)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants.
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    Adam Lowrance*, University of Iowa
    (1056-57-427)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometry of Lorenz knots.
    Ilya Kofman*, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
    (1056-57-1710)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Adequate knots, guts, and volumes I: surfaces and polyhedra.
    David Futer, Temple University
    Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
    Jessica S Purcell*, Brigham Young University
    (1056-57-1825)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Adequate knots, guts, and volumes II: volume and Jones polynomial.
    David Futer*, Temple University
    Efstratia Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
    Jessica S Purcell, Brigham Young University
    (1056-57-1913)