The 35th Annual
Workshop in Geometric Topology
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
June 14 - 16, 2018
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The 35th Annual
Workshop in Geometric Topology
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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The workshop begins at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 14, and ends shortly after noon on Saturday, June 16. Each day there is a one-hour lecture by the principal speaker as well as contributed talks by participants. The workshop ends with a problem session at noon on Saturday.
All talks will take place in Room 110 of the Science Building on the Calvin College campus. See the campus map for location of the Science Building.
Note for speakers:
Room SB110 is equipped with (1) chalk boards (brown), (2) a computer projector, and (3) a document camera with projector.
• Colored chalk will be available for those giving a chalk talk.
• A computer is supplied with the computer projector so you can bring your talk on a flash drive. You can also connect your own
laptop directly to the projector if you prefer. The projector has both VGA and HDMI connectors; if your computer requires some
other kind of connector (for example, if it's a Macintosh laptop), you should bring the appropriate adaptor with you.
• The document camera will display printed material as well as 3D models.
In the schedule below, you can click on the title of a talk to see the abstract.
Click here to see the complete abstracts book.
| Time | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast at the Prince Center | |
| 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. | Greg Friedman, Texas Christian University | Stratified Spaces and Intersection Homology |
| 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. | Nathan Sunukjian, Calvin College | 0-concordance of 2-knots |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Sudipta Kolay, Georgia Tech | Lifting Branched Covers to Braided Embeddings |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:50 a.m. | András Stipsicz, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics | Invariants of Knots and Links |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco | Continued Fractions, Non-orientable Surfaces, and Torus Knots |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Haofei Fan, UCLA | Unoriented Cobordism Maps on Link Floer Homology |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Matthew Harper, The Ohio State University | The Family of Induced Representations for Quantum Groups at a Primitive 4th Root of Unity |
| 3:00 - 3:20 p.m. | John Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University | Harmonic Spinors on the Davis Hyperbolic 4-manifold |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:00 - 4:20 p.m. | Zhenkun Li, MIT | The Width of Satellite Knots |
| 4:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Jacob Pichelmeyer, Kansas State University | Computing the Smooth Nonorientable Four Genus of the Negative Nine Two Knot |
| 5:00 - 5:20 P.M. | David Freund, Dartmouth College | Complexity of Virtual Multistrings |
| Time | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast at the Prince Center | |
| 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 a.m. | András Stipsicz, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics | Knot Floer Homology |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. | Michael Andersen, Brigham Young University | Slender Properties of HNN Extensions |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Mike Mihalik, Vanderbilt University | Relatively Hyperbolic Groups have Semistable Fundamental Group at Infinity |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. | Molly Moran, Colorado College | Boundaries of Generalized Baumslag-Solitar Groups |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Boris Okun, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | Growth Series of CAT(0) Cubical Complexes |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Kevin Schreve, University of Michigan | Action Dimension of Some Simple Complexes of Groups |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Atish Mitra, Montana Tech | Geometric Groupoid Models for C* Algebras |
| 3:00 - 3:20 p.m. | Piotr Suwara, MIT | Gluing Formulas for Seiberg-Witten Invariants |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:00 - 4:20 p.m. | Afrah Ahmad Noman Abdou, Jeddah University | Fixed Points Results for Multivalued Contractive Mappings with CLR property |
| 4:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Mohammad Kang, Wayne State University | New Symmetries of Stable Homotopy Groups |
| 5:00 - 5:20 p.m. | Mohammad AlQudah, German Jordanian University | Matrix Transformation of Generalized Shifted Chebyshev Koornwinder's Type Polynomials Basis |
| Time | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast at the Prince Center | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 a.m. | András Stipsicz, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics | The Upsilon Function of Knots |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. | Bob Daverman, University of Tennessee | Monotone Maps of the Pontryagin Sphere to Itself |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Stanisław Spież, Polish Academy of Sciences | Deficient and Multiple Points of Maps into Manifolds |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. | Leonard R. Rubin, University of Oklahoma | Simplicial Inverse Systems and Extension Theory |
| 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. | Problem Session | |
| 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 4:00 - 9:30 p.m. | Outing | |