Events for 39th Summer Topology and Its Applications Conference

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39th Summer Topology and Its Applications Conference Schedule

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August 10

03:30 PM: Student & Early Career Welcome Workshop
Student & Early Career Workshop — Steven Clontz
06:30 PM: Social Hour and Early Check-In in TBA

August 11

08:00 AM: Check-In
08:30 AM: Welcome
08:40 AM: Plenary Talk #1
Projections of spatial graphs — Erica Flapan
09:40 AM: Coffee Break
10:00 AM: Parallel Sessions #1
- Computing Session #1
  - 10:00 AM: Computing Session #1 #1
    A mechanized characterization of coherent $2$ -groups — Perry Hart
  - 10:30 AM: Computing Session #1 #2
    Computing path homology chains by inductive construction — Matthew Burfitt
  - 11:00 AM: Computing Session #1 #3
    Sheaf Cohomology and the Algebraic Path Problem — Kaelyn Willingham
  - 11:30 AM: Computing Session #1 #4
    Sequential topological complexity of symmetric products of surfaces — Ekansh Jauhari
- Dynamics/CT Session #1
  - 10:00 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #1 #1
    Retract or Not: A Tale of Two Fans — Iztok Banic
  - 10:30 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #1 #2
    Lelek-like fans — Ivan Jelić
  - 11:00 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #1 #3
    Specification in Mahavier Systems via Closed Relations — Goran Erceg
  - 11:30 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #1 #4
    Turbulent closed relations — Judy Kennedy
- General/ST Session #1
  - 10:00 AM: General/ST Session #1 #1
    $Q$ -sets, $Δ$ -sets and $L$ -spaces — Pourya Memarpanahi
  - 10:25 AM: General/ST Session #1 #2
    Combinatorial covering properties in countable and uncountable contexts — Michał Pawlikowski
  - 10:50 AM: General/ST Session #1 #3
    Combinatorial structures of concentrated sets — Piotr Szewczak
  - 11:15 AM: General/ST Session #1 #4
    Reflecting topological properties in closures of countable sets. — Vladimir Tkachuk
  - 11:40 AM: General/ST Session #1 #5
    Sequential and countable compactness associated to Ramsey-like properties — Cesar Corral
- Graphs Session #1
  - 10:00 AM: Graphs Session #1 #1
    Properties of the Penrose Polynomial — Dan Silver
  - 10:30 AM: Graphs Session #1 #2
    Unavoidable Induced Subgraphs of Large Graphs — Sarah Allred
  - 11:00 AM: Graphs Session #1 #3
    On Distance-Scaling Transformations and Isomorphisms of Euclidean Distance Graphs on the Rational Points — Matt Noble
  - 11:30 AM: Graphs Session #1 #4
    A Transversal of Planar Graph Faces — Joseph Briggs
- Low-Dimensional Session #1
  - 10:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #1 #1
    Ideal Triangulations and Once-Punctured Surface Bundles — Birch Bryant
  - 10:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #1 #2
    On the neighborhood of knots in the space of open curves — Eleni Panagiotou
  - 11:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #1 #3
    Triple point numbers of 2-twist spun knots — Scott Carter
  - 11:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #1 #4
    In search for homology of Bol-Moufang quasigroups — Jozef Przytycki
12:00 PM: Lunch in Humanities Building
01:00 PM: Semi-Plenary Talks #1
- Semi-Plenary Talk #1.1
  Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica — Mike Willis
- Semi-Plenary Talk #1.2
  Unknotting numbers of spatial graphs, knots and DNA — Danielle O'Donnol
02:00 PM: Coffee Break
02:30 PM: Formalized Topology Workshop
05:30 PM: Welcome Reception in Faculty Club

August 12

08:30 AM: Parallel Sessions #2
- Computing Session #2
  - 08:30 AM: Computing Session #2 #1
    Comparison of Precinct and District Voting Data Using Persistent Homology to Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina — Ananya Shah
  - 09:00 AM: Computing Session #2 #2
    Unmapped Territory for Topological Data Analysis: Mathematics Education — Devin Hensley
  - 09:30 AM: Computing Session #2 #3
    Unveiling Topological Structures in Text & Speech — Adaku Uchendu
  - 10:00 AM: Computing Session #2 #4
    Efficient evader detection in mobile sensor networks — William Ott
- General/ST Session #2
  - 08:30 AM: General/ST Session #2 #1
    An iterable forcing property and universally meager sets — Valentin Haberl
  - 08:55 AM: General/ST Session #2 #2
    Frechet spaces and M-separable (selectively separable) spaces — Alan Dow
  - 09:20 AM: General/ST Session #2 #3
    Metrization theorem in forcing extensions — Akira Iwasa
  - 09:45 AM: General/ST Session #2 #4
    Topological spaces after forcing — Pedro Marun
  - 10:10 AM: General/ST Session #2 #5
    The Shape of Generating Families — Paul Gartside
- Low-Dimensional Session #2
  - 08:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #2 #1
    Investigations in Knot Positivity — Lizzie Buchanan
  - 09:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #2 #2
    Another proof of functoriality for odd Khovanov homology — Dean Spyropoulos
  - 09:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #2 #3
    A minimality criterion for SL(4) skeins — Anup Poudel
  - 10:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #2 #4
    Lie superalgebras and the minimal genus of virtual links — Micah Chrisman
- Graphs Session #2
  - 08:30 AM: Graphs Session #2 #1
    Optimization of the lattice stick number in handcuff graphs — Sungjong No
  - 09:00 AM: Graphs Session #2 #2
  - 09:30 AM: Graphs Session #2 #3
  - 10:00 AM: Graphs Session #2 #4
- Dynamics/CT Session #2
  - 08:30 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #2 #1
    $k$ -type chaos of $Z^{d}$ -actions — Anshid Aboobacker
  - 09:00 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #2 #2
    Elliptic sectors and heteroclinic regions in real time holomorphic flows — Nicolas Kainz
  - 09:30 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #2 #3
    Generalized Proinov-type contractions using simulation functions with applications to fractals — Ramesh Kumar Devaraj
  - 10:00 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #2 #4
    Chaos on Peano continua — Klára Karasová
10:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM: Plenary Talk #2
The Shape of Relations: From Knot Invariants to Cancer Genomics — Radmila Sazdanovic
12:00 PM: Lunch in Terrace Room, Student Center
01:00 PM: Semi-Plenary Talks #2
- Semi-Plenary Talk #2.1
  Homogeneity degree in local dendrites — Patricia Pellicer-Covarrubias
- Semi-Plenary Talk #2.2
  A survey of intrinsically linked and intrinsically knotted graphs, including an outline of an incomplete possible alternate proof of Sachs' linkless embedding conjecture — Joel Foisy
- Semi-Plenary Talk #2.3
  Independence, ideal independence and forcing indestructibility — Vera Fischer
02:00 PM: Coffee Break
02:30 PM: Parallel Sessions #3
- Computing Session #3
  - 02:30 PM: Computing Session #3 #1
    Persistence-Augmented Neural Networks — Elena Wang
  - 03:00 PM: Computing Session #3 #2
    Representations of Micrograph Geometry for Machine Learning — Benjamin Schweinhart
  - 03:30 PM: Computing Session #3 #3
    Topological Feature Selection for Time Series Data — Johnathan Bush
  - 04:00 PM: Computing Session #3 #4
    Squares inscribed in ray compactifications — Ulises Morales-Fuentes
- Dynamics/CT Session #3
  - 02:30 PM: Dynamics/CT Session #3 #1
    Building Continua with non-trivial self covers — Mathew Timm
  - 03:00 PM: Dynamics/CT Session #3 #2
    Inverse Limits with Smith Functions and Indecomposability — Scott Varagona
  - 03:30 PM: Dynamics/CT Session #3 #3
    Plane embeddings of continua, and accessible points — Logan Hoehn
  - 04:00 PM: Dynamics/CT Session #3 #4
    On the set function $℘$ — Sergio Macias
- General/ST Session #3
  - 02:30 PM: General/ST Session #3 #1
    A measure of Isbell-convexity for a quasi-metric space — Collins Amburo Agyingi
  - 02:55 PM: General/ST Session #3 #2
    On the modular metric topology — Olivier Olela-Otafudu
  - 03:20 PM: General/ST Session #3 #3
    Partial metric spaces - topological properties and applications — Dariusz Bugajewski
  - 03:45 PM: General/ST Session #3 #4
    The Borel hierarchies of function spaces consisting of metrics — Katsuhisa Koshino
  - 04:10 PM: General/ST Session #3 #5
    In the quest for squares in plane continua — Cristina Villanueva-Segovia
- Graphs Session #3
  - 02:30 PM: Graphs Session #3 #1
    An intrinsically linked simplicial $n$ -complex — Ryo Nikkuni
  - 03:00 PM: Graphs Session #3 #2
    Graph Linkage on Surfaces — Dong Ye
  - 03:30 PM: Graphs Session #3 #3
    Decomposing $2$ -cycles of graphs — Hein Van der Holst
  - 04:00 PM: Graphs Session #3 #4
    Embedding Cartesian Products of Graphs on Surfaces — Christian Millichap
- Low-Dimensional Session #3
  - 02:30 PM: Low-Dimensional Session #3 #1
    Holonomicity from a Heegaard-Floer perspective — Ben Cooper
  - 03:00 PM: Low-Dimensional Session #3 #2
    Thompson's Groups, Annular Links, and Tangles — Louisa Liles
  - 03:30 PM: Low-Dimensional Session #3 #3
    Skein identities at roots of unity — Vijay Higgins
  - 04:00 PM: Low-Dimensional Session #3 #4
    Geometric triangulations of the complement of double twist knots — Dionne Ibarra
04:40 PM: Plenary Talk #3
Hausdorff vs Gromov-Hausdorff distances — Henry Adams
06:00 PM: Steering Committee Dinner and Meeting

August 13

08:30 AM: Parallel Sessions #4
- Computing Session #4
  - 08:30 AM: Computing Session #4 #1
    Facets in the Vietoris--Rips complexes of hypercubes — Ziqin Feng
  - 09:00 AM: Computing Session #4 #2
    Homotopy connectivity of Cech complexes of spheres. — Sucharita Mallick
- General/ST Session #4
  - 08:30 AM: General/ST Session #4 #1
    Cardinal bounds in spaces with a $π$ -base whose elements have an H-closed closure — Davide Giacopello
  - 09:00 AM: General/ST Session #4 #2
    Countable dense homogeneity and topological groups — Andrea Medini
- Graphs Session #4
  - 08:30 AM: Graphs Session #4 #1
    Flowers of knots — Kouki Taniyama
  - 09:00 AM: Graphs Session #4 #2
    Forbidden complexes for the 3-sphere — Makoto Ozawa
- Low-Dimensional Session #4
  - 08:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #4 #1
  - 09:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #4 #2
09:30 AM: Coffee Break
09:50 AM: Plenary Talk #4
Cardinal inequalities for non-Hausdorff topological spaces — Ivan Gotchev
11:00 AM: Semi-Plenary Talks #3
- Semi-Plenary Talk #3.1
  Shadowing in $C (X)$ — Jonathan Meddaugh
- Semi-Plenary Talks #3.2
  Analyzing the Geometric Topology of Artificial (ReLU) Neural Networks — Marissa Masden
12:00 PM: Excursion and Banquet

August 14

08:30 AM: Parallel Sessions #5
- Computing Session #5
  - 08:30 AM: Computing Session #5 #1
  - 09:00 AM: Computing Session #5 #2
  - 09:30 AM: Computing Session #5 #3
  - 10:00 AM: Computing Session #5 #4
- Dynamics/CT Session #5
  - 08:30 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #5 #1
    Equivalence of equicontinuity and distality for real non-autonomous systems — Sushmita Yadav
  - 09:00 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #5 #2
    On various forms of independence and minimality for general triangular systems — Deepanshu Dhawan
  - 09:30 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #5 #3
    Speedups of Toeplitz Flows — Lori Alvin
  - 10:00 AM: Dynamics/CT Session #5 #4
    Neighborhood N-Shadowing — Elyssa Stephens
- General/ST Session #5
  - 08:30 AM: General/ST Session #5 #1
    Holey Vietoris--Rips complex, Batman! — Chris Wells
  - 08:55 AM: General/ST Session #5 #2
    Pseudo- $ℵ_{1}$ -compactness in $R$ -factorizable groups — Olga Sipacheva
  - 09:20 AM: General/ST Session #5 #3
    Stone-Cech extensions of pseudocompact convex spaces. — Evgenii Reznichenko
  - 09:45 AM: General/ST Session #5 #4
    The $F_{σ}$ -below relation and some new separation axioms in the category of locales — Mbekezeli Nxumalo
  - 10:10 AM: General/ST Session #5 #5
- Graphs Session #5
  - 08:30 AM: Graphs Session #5 #1
    Ribbonlength along three-page presentation of links — Hyungkee Yoo
  - 09:00 AM: Graphs Session #5 #2
    Obstructions to knotless embedding — Hyoungjun Kim
  - 09:30 AM: Graphs Session #5 #3
    Decomposition of Complete Graphs into Arbitrary Trees and Hamiltonian Cycles — Murugan Varadhan
  - 10:00 AM: Graphs Session #5 #4
    Topological Characterization of Carbon Allotrope Graphs Using Multifractal Analysis — D. Easwaramoorthy
- Low-Dimensional Session #5
  - 08:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #5 #1
    Skein Modules for 3-Manifolds and Their Structure — Rhea Bakshi
  - 09:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #5 #2
    On algebraic invariants of multi-virtual knots — Sujoy Mukherjee
  - 09:30 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #5 #3
    Multiple Virtual Knot Theory — Lou Kauffman
  - 10:00 AM: Low-Dimensional Session #5 #4
10:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM: Plenary Talk #5
Bounded cohomology of transformation groups of $R^{n}$ — Francesco Fournier-Facio
12:00 PM: Lunch in Humanities Building
01:00 PM: Semi-Plenary Talks #4
- Semi-Plenary Talks #4.1
  Formalizing Braid Groups — Hannah Fechtner
- Semi-Plenary Talks #4.2
  Infinite Games — Jocelyn Bell
02:30 PM: Plenary Talk #6
On tracing properties, invariant measures, and entropy. — Piotr Oprocha