The first ANNOUNCEMENT, November 1, 2005
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December 9-11, 2005 The 21th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications George Washington University, Washington,
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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.
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,