The first ANNOUNCEMENT, November 1, 2005

 

KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXI:
Skein modules, Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology
 December 9-11, 2005
The 21th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
George Washington University, Washington, DC


You are cordially invited to attend our Knots in Washington XXI conference.
Skein modules, Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology.


LINK TO PREVIOUS CONFERENCES:
This regional conference is held every semester, in various locations in the Washington area
(see http://home.gwu.edu/~przytyck/knots/index.html ).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The conference will take place at George Washington University.

Lectures: Six plenary talks - 50 minutes long, and 20 minutes long research talks.

Time and location: We will start on December 9, 1:00 pm with the talk by Mikhail Khovanov.
                                 Room 113 of the bulding 1957 E street (GWU).

If you plan to attend please contact one of the organizers. No registration fee! 

We applied for a partial support from NSF (for plenary speakers, PhD students, fresh PhD's and mathematicians without a grant). SUPPORT HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED (November 18, 2005).

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

If you give a talk please submit your abstract at SUBMISSION -- Knots in Washington XXI

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Mikhail Khovanov, Lev Rozansky, Paul Turner, Lou Kauffman, Dror Bar- Natan

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Benjamin Audoux, L.Helme-Guizon, L.Hernandez, K.Kawamuro, M.Khovanov, J.H.Przytycki, Y.Rong, L.Rozansky, A.Shumakovitch, P.Turner, A.Virelizier, ...

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts -- Knots in Washington XXI

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Soon!!! The first plenary talk will take place 1:00pm on Friday but if needed we will have 20 minute talks starting from 10:00 am on Friday. The conference will end about 5:30 on Sunday, December 11.

ACCOMODATION

According to:
http://gwired.gwu.edu/adm/visit/placetostay.html
there are two official GW hotels: The George Washington University Inn and One Washington Circle Hotel.
Their web cites are http://www.gwuinn.com/index2.html
http://www.thecirclehotel.com/index2.htm
The reasonable hotels in the neighborhood are
State Plaza Hotel (2117 E St)
http://www.stateplaza.com/
or Holiday Inn Rosslyn:
http://www.basshotels.com/h/d/hi/hc/waswp
For the hotels around Washington see:
http://www.180096hotel.com/cgi-bin/pickinput?SID=YDL&LKF=YDL&Dest=WAS

For Hotels in Bethesda see:
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-476388-bethesda_hotels-i

Conference Organizers:
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), przytyck@gwu.edu
Yongwu Rong (GWU), rong@gwu.edu
Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), shurik@gwu.edu


The next conference, Knots in Washington XXII,
will take place in Spring of 2006,