CURRENT SCHEDULE
 

 All talks except Thursday's are in Funger Hall 320 (G St. NW, between 22nd and 23rd). Thursday's talk is in Funger 428B.


Time Speaker Title
THURSDAY, 12/7
6:15-7:15 Charles Frohman How Big is the Kauffman Bracket?
FRIDAY, 12/8
10:00-10:50 Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska A quantum obstruction to embedding 
11:00-12:00 Barbara Nimershiem Shortest vertical geodesics in surgeries on one cusp of the Borromean rings 
[lunch]
2:30-3:00 Dubravko Ivansic Hyperbolic structure on "link" complements in the 4-sphere
3:10-3:40 Doug Bullock The Kauffman bracket skein module of the complement of a twist knot
3:50-4:20 Susan Williams p-adic Entropy and Colorings
4:30-5:00 E. Arthur (Robbie) Robinson Tilings associated with endomorphisms of free groups
5:10-5:40 Dan Silver Tangles and persistent dynamical invariants
SATURDAY, 12/9
10:30-11:30 Adam Sikora From quantum gravity to Fermat's Last Theorem
11:40-12:10 Akira Yasuhara Symmetry of links and classification of lens spaces
[lunch]
2:00-2:30 Ilya Kofman  
2:40-3:10 Paul Kainen Newton, Klein, Kauffman, Cayley and the Four Color Problem
3:20-3:50 Yongwu Rong