Quandles- their homology and ramifications
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Alissa Crans ( Loyola Marymount University) |
Quandle Queries |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Coffee break | |
| 2:30 - 3:20 | Masahico Saito (University of South Florida) | Applications, constructions, and interpretations of quandle cocycles |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Coffee break |
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| 3:50 - 4:15 | Maciej Niebrzydowski (GWU) | Homology of dihedral quandles I |
| 4:25 - 4:50 | Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU) | Homology of dihedral quandles II |
| 4:50 - 5:00 | Coffee break |
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| 5:00 - 6:00 | Quandles- problem session | |
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Rome Hall
801 22nd Street Room 459
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Scott Carter (U. South Alabama) |
Infiltration of elaborate schemes |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50 - 12:40 |
Mohamed Elhamdadi (Univ. South Florida) |
The adjoint of Hopf algebras and cohomology |
| 12:50 - 1:30 |
Shin Satoh (Kobe University) |
The sheet numbers of 2-knots with non-trivial fundamental quandles |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Lunch-Pizza (provided by the organizers) | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 |
Michael Eisermann ( Institut Fourier, U. of Grenoble) |
Interpretation of quandle invariants in terms of knot group representations |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Coffee break | |
| 3:50 - 4:40 |
Kheira Ameur (University of South Florida) |
Polynomial Quandle Cocycles, Their knot invariants and Applications |
| 4:50 - 5:15 | Laure Helme-Guizon (GWU) | A categorification for the Tutte polynomial for matroids: From a matroid M, we produce a chain complex whose graded Euler Characteristic is the Tutte polynomial of Matroids |
| 5:15 - 6:30 | Coffee break |
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| 5:30 - 6:10 | Yongwu Rong (GWU) | A quick trip through combinatorial knot Floer homology |
| 7:30 | A small party | |
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Rome Hall
801 22nd Street Room 459
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
Dragomir Saric (Queens College CUNY ) |
Virtual automorphisms as mapping classes |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Carmen Caprau (U. Iowa) |
A sl(2) tangle homology for seamed cobordisms with polynomial coefficients. |
| 12:15 - 1:30 | Pizza (provided by the organizers) | |
| 1:45 - 2:10 | Kerry Luse (GWU) | A categorifcation for the Penrose polynomial |
| 2:15 - 2:40 |
Domingo Ruiz (Universite de Paris Sud / UMD) |
Quaternions and Rotations |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | John Armstrong (Yale University) |
Functors extending the Kauffman Bracket |
| 3:15 - 3:40 | ||