FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2000
 

 KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XI
 December 7-9, 2000
       The Eleventh Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications

You are cordially invited to attend and give a talk at our Knots in Washington XI conference. This regional conference is held every semester, in various locations in the Washington area (see http://home.gwu.edu/~przytyck/knots/index.html). The conference will take place at George Washington University in Washington DC (few blocks from the White House and Smithsonian Museums). We are planning several 50-minute survey talks and 25 minute research talks. You are cordially invited to participate in this and future meetings.

We will start on Thursday December 7, with a plenary talk By C. Frohman at 6:15pm. We will continue on Friday and Saturday, finishing before 5:00pm on Saturday.

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

If you would like to give a talk please submit your abstract by following the links at left.

For organizers
Jozef H.Przytycki (przytyck@gwu.edu), GWU, Washington D.C.

Speakers include:

  • Doug Bullock, The Kauffman bracket skein module of the complement of a twist knot
  • Charlie Frohman, How Big is the Kauffman Bracket?
  • Dubravko Ivansic, Hyperbolic structure on "link" complements in the 4-sphere
  • Paul Kainen, Newton, Klein, Kauffman, Cayley and the Four Color Problem
  • Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, A quantum obstruction to embedding
  • Ilya Kofman
  • Barbara Nimershiem, Shortest vertical geodesics in surgeries on one cusp of the Borromean rings
  • E. Arthur (Robbie) Robinson, Tilings associated with endomorphisms of free groups
  • Yongwu Rong
  • Adam Sikora, From quantum gravity to Fermat's Last Theorem; relations with skein modules
  • Dan Silver, Tangles and persistent dynamical invariants
  • Susan Williams,  p-adic Entropy and Colorings
  • Akira Yasuhara, Symmetry of links and classification of lens spaces

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    Organizers:

    Dubravko Ivansic (divansic@gwu.edu)
    Jozef H.Przytycki (przytyck@gwu.edu)
    Yongwu Rong (rong@gwu.edu)
    Daniel Silver (silver@math.umd.edu)
    Akira Yasuhara (yasuhara@research.circ.gwu.edu)