The conference takes place at the George Washington University, December 8–10, 2017.
The Conference will start at 1:00pm on Friday, December 8, 2017 with a colloquium-type talk by Louis Kauffman on "Knotoids, Virtual Knots and Applications" in Rome Hall 204.
If you want to give a talk: submit your abstract
If you want to participate: e-mail Jozef Przytycki and/or Alex Shumakovitch so that a name tag can be prepared for you.
IMPORTANT: if you travel internationally and want to be reimbursed for your flight, please make sure to fly on a U.S. flag air carrier (see the GWU Guidelines for the definition), or a foreign airline that code shares with one. If in doubt, please double check with Alex Shumakovitch before buying your ticket.
Plenary speakers include:
Michael Abel (Duke University)
Scott Carter (University of South Alabama)
Louis Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University)
Krzysztof Putyra (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Distinguished graduate student talks:
Xiao Wang (The George Washington University)
Melissa Zhang (Boston College)
Conference organizers:
Valentina Harizanov
Jozef H. Przytycki
Yongwu Rong
Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU)
Alexander Shumakovitch
Hao Wu