The Eighth Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 30, May 1 1999,
at the George Washington University.
You are cordially invited to participate in this and future meetings.
We plan it to be a regional conference (of Washington area) to be held
every semester.
Place:
All talks will take place in Funger Hall (2201 G Street, NW), Room
310
(G street / 23 street on GWU campus)
Schedule:
Friday, April 30, 1999
11:30- 12:50 Lunch
12:50 - 1:00 coffee and refreshments
1:00 - 2.00 COLLOQUIUM - I
Jeffrey Lagarias (Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
Much Ado about Knotting: The Complexity of Unknotting
2:00 - 2:30 coffee and refreshments
2:30 - 3:30 COLLOQUIUM - II
Hiroshi Goda (University of California at Davis)
Almost alternating diagrams and fibered links in the 3-sphere
3:40 - Reception Funger Hall, Room 310
Saturday, May 1, 1999
10:00 - 10:30 coffee and refreshments
10:30 - 11:10 Ted Stanford (US Naval Academy)
A move on diagrams that generates S-equivalence of knots
11:10- 11:30 coffee and refreshments
11:30 - 11:50
Yongwu Rong (GWU)
A Leibniz type formula for links
- with application to higher order link polynomials
12:00 - 12:20
Ilya Kofman (UMCP)
12:30 - 12:50
Doug Bullock (UMCP)
The Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein algebra
Lunch break
2:30 - 3:00
Maxim Sokolov (GWU)
Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants and periodic 3-manifolds
3:10 - 3:30
Dubravko Ivansic (GWU)
Hyperbolic manifolds as "knot" complements
3:40 - 4:00
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU)
Homotopy skein modules of 3-manifolds: an example in Algebra Situs
4:10 - 4:30
Paul Kainen (GeorgeTown University)
Topological graph theory and quantum computing
4:40 - 5:00
Tatsuya Tsukamoto (GWU)
A criterion for almost alternating links to be non-splittable
5:10 - 5:30
Qi Chen (GWU)
The 3-move conjecture for 5-braids
Travel: Metro station, Foggy Bottom-GWU is 2 blocks from Funger Hall;
Parking is free on Saturdays
on most of the streets.
Funger Hall is located on G Street,
NW, between 22nd and 23rd Streets,
at 2201 G Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Local Organizers: Jozef H. Przytycki e-mail: przytyck@gwu.edu
Yongwu Rong e-mail: rong@gwu.edu