KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXIV

Dedicated to memory of Xiao-Song Lin (1957-2007)

SCHEDULE

Friday, April 13, 2007

1957 E Street, Room 212

 
2:30 - 2:35

Kunio Mursugi

Opening remarks
2:35 - 2:40

Yongwu Rong

Eulogy for Xiao-Song Lin (1957-2007)
2:40 - 3:40

Uwe Kaiser

Boise State University

Skein modules and their ramifications
3:40 - 4:10
Coffee break
4:10 - 4:35

Michael McLendon

Washington College

Hochschild homology and 3-manifolds
4:45 - 5:10

Jozef H. Przytycki

GWU

Burnside groups of knots, tangle moves and their skein module deformations
5:10 - 5:20
Coffee break
5:20 - 5:45

Yongwu Rong

GWU

Feynman diagrams and transition polynomial



Saturday, April 14, 2007
DUQUES

2201 G St. NW Room 258

10:00 - 10:30 Breakfast
10:30 - 11:20

Adam Sikora

SUNY Buffalo

Khovanov homology for concatenation of tangles
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 - 12:40

Stephan Wehrli

Columbia University

Mutation invariance of Khovanov homology over Z/2Z
12:40 - 12:50
Coffee break
12:50 - 1:15

Sergei Chmutov

The Ohio State University

Vassiliev invriants that do not distinguish mutant knots.
1:25 - 1:50

Hao Wu

University of Massachusetts

The Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology and Bennequin inequalities
1:50 - 3:00 Lunch (Pizza provided by organizers)
3:00 - 3:50

Sofia Lambropoulou

National Technical University of Athens

p-adic framed braids and p-adic framed links
3:50 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - 4:25

Uwe Kaiser

Boise State University

Bar-Natan algebras and modules of oriented surfaces
4:30 - 4:55

Alexander Shumakovitch

GWU

Naive categorification of the skein slN polynomial
4:55 - 5:10
Coffee break
5:10 - 5:35

Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr.

UMBC

Q 3-Stranded Quantum Algorithm for the Jones Polynomial
5:40 - 6:20

Isabel Darcy

University of Iowa

Modeling protein-DNA complexes using tangles
7:00 Party

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Rome Hall

801 22nd Street Room 459

10:00 - 10:30 Breakfast
10:30 - 11:20

Louis H. Kauffman

UIC

Formal knot theory and clock homology
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 - 12:15

Slava Krushkal

University of Virginia

Links, Milnor's invariants, and robust manifolds
12:20 - 12:45

Radmila Sazdanovic

GWU

Unknotting number and unlinking gap
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:30

Masahico Saito

University of South Florida

Cohomology for Frobenius algebras and applications
2:30 - 2:40

Coffee break

2:40 - 3:05

Sam Nelson

Whittier College

A polynomial invariant of finite quandles
3:10 - 3:35

Kerry Luse

GWU

Knots with identical Khovanov Homology, after Watson

Abstracts can be viewed at: http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/abstract/cauq-01