| THE Second ANNOUNCEMENT, January 15, 2005 |
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February 11-13, 2005 The 20th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
George Washington University,
Washington, DC
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Conference is devoted to topics in Knot Theory and its
Ramifications
which were introduced, discovered, studied or popularized
by Louis H. Kauffman.
Plenary speakers include: Dror Bar-Natan, Mikhail Khovanov,
Hugh Morton, Kunio Murasugi, David Radford, Oleg Viro.
This regional conference is held
every semester, in various locations in the Washington area
(see http://home.gwu.edu/~pr
zytyck/knots/index.html
).
The conference will take place at George Washington University.
We plan five plenary talks - 50 minutes long, and 20 minutes long research talks.You are cordially invited to participate in this and future meetings.
We will start on Friday February 11, 1:00 pm
with the talk by Louis H. Kauffman.
It will take place in the room 113 of the bulding 1957 E street (GWU).
If you plan to attend please contact one of the organizers. No registration fee!
If you give a talk please submit your abstract at
SUBMISSION -- Knots in Washington XX
Speakers include:
S.Carter, I.Darcy, O.Dasbach, D.De Wit,
J.Drobotukhina, A.Durfee, H.Dye, S.Garoufalidis, L.Helme-Guizon,
C-C.Hsieh, G.T.Jin, P.Kainen, U.Kaiser, K.Kawamuro,
S.Lambropoulou, R.Lawrence,
T.Le, X-S.Lin, H.H.Moser, J.H.Przytycki, Y.Rong,
M.Saito, S.Satoh, A.Shumakovitch, D.Silver, F.J. O. Souza,
S.Williams, D.Yetter,...
See directions to GWU below
Schedule:
Friday, February 11, 2005
Talks at 1957 E street, room 113
1:00 -- 1:50 Lou Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Spin Networks and Anyonic Topological Quantum Computing
2:00 -- 2:40
David Radford (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Some generalizations of quasitriangular Hopf algebras which
give rise to invariants of knots and links
2:50 -3:10
Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Tech.)
On the Generalized Hyperbolic Volume Conjecture
3:10 -- 3:30 coffee break
3:30 -- 3:50 Oliver Dasbach (LSU.)
On Kauffman's spanning tree expansion of the Alexander polynomial
4:00 -- 4:20 Xiao-Song Lin (U.C. Riverside)
On n-punctured ball tangles
4:30 -- 5:00 Scott Carter (U. South Alabama), Masahico Saito (USF)
Fox colorings for the number of Reidemeister moves and colored chirality
5:10 -- 5:30 David De Wit (University of Queensland)
How the Links-Gould invariants generalise the Alexander-Conway polynomial
5:35 -- 5:55 Laure Helme-Guizon and Yongwu Rong (GWU)
A Khovanov-type homology theory for graphs
6:05 -- 6:25 Shin Satoh (Chiba University and U. South Florida)
Disk presentations of surface-knots and -links
6:30 -- 6:50 Julia Viro-Drobotukhina (Uppsala Univ.)
Lines and circles meeting links
7:00 -- 7:10 Alan Durfee (Mount Holyoke College)
Polynomial and Rational knots
Saturday February 12, 2005
ROME building (22 Street), room 459
10:00 -- 10:30am Breakfast: coffee and refreshments
10:30 -- 11:20am Hugh Morton (U. Liverpool)
The meridian maps in skein theory
11:30 -- 11:50 Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA, Greece and Univ. de Caen,
France)
Virtual braids and the L-move
12:00 -- 12:30 Oleg Viro (Uppsala Univ.)
Khovanov homology of virtual knots
12:40 -- 12:45 Joan Birman (Columbia Univ.)
Short introduction to the talk:
12:45 -- 13:00 Harriet H. Moser (Columbia Univ.)
A method to prove that a manifold has a complete hyperbolic structure
13:00 -- 2:00 pm LUNCH/Pizza at Rome
2:00 - 2:50 Mikhail Khovanov (UC Davis)
Categorification of the Kauffman bracket and equivariant cohomology
3:00 -- 3:20 Thang Le (G. Tech)
On the Kauffman bracket skein modules, the Jones polynomial and
the A-polynomial
3:20 -- 3:50 coffee break
3:50 -- 4:10 Alexander Shumakovitch (Dartmouth College)
Rasmussen Invariant, Slice-Bennequin Inequality, and Sliceness of Knots
4:20 -- 5:00 Dan Silver, Susan Williams (Univ. South Alabama)
Alexander groups of long virtual knots
5:10 -- 5:40 Uwe Kaiser (Boise State U.)
Generalization of a formula of Przytycki
5:50 -- 6:10 Sostenes Lins (Depto. Matematica UFPE/CNPq (Brazil))
Blobs and Flips on Gems
6:20 -- 6:40 Gyo Taek Jin (KAIST, Korea)
Quadrisecants and quadrisecant approximations of knots
7:00pm A small party at Jozef's house
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Talks take place in ROME building, room 459
10:00 -- 10:30am Breakfast: coffee and refreshments
10:30 -- 11:20am Dror Bar-Natan (U. Toronto)
I've computed Kh(T(9,5)) and I'm happy
11:30 -- 11:50 Ruth Lawrence (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
The slope conjecture for surgery around knots
11:55 -- 12:15 Isabel K. Darcy (U.Iowa)
3-string tangle analysis of Mu transposase
12:20 -- 12:40 Paul Kainen (Georgetown University)
Robust bases and transformations of knotted cycles
12:45 - 1:05 Fernando J. O. Souza (University of Iowa)
On non-additive versions of the Kauffman-Radford reformulation of the Hennings invariant (KRH invariant)
1:05 -- 2:00 LUNCH/Pizza at Rome building
2:00 -- 2:50 Kunio Murasugi (University of Toronto)
The twisted Alexander polynomials
3:00 -- 3:20 Chun-Chung Hsieh (CCVAX, TW)
Linking in knot theory
3:30 -- 3:50 David Yetter (K.S.U)
Non-linear Finite-Type Invariants
4:00 -- 4:20 Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU)
Survey on the Kauffman bracket skein modules of 3-manifolds
4:30 -- 4:50 Heather A. Dye (US Military Academy)
Realizations of Virtual Link Diagrams
5:00pm Official end of the conference.
Directions to George Washington University:
http://www.gwu.edu/~map/
The reasonable hotels in the neighborhood are
State Plaza Hotel (2117 E St)
http://www.washington-dc-hotel.us/state-plaza-hotel.php
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:
Sofia Lambropoulou (National Technical University of Athens and Univ. de Caen),
sofia@math.ntua.gr
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), przytyck@gwu.edu
Yongwu Rong (GWU), rong@gwu.edu
The next conference, Knots in Washington XXI,
will take place in Fall of 2005,