KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXI

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE


Friday, December 9, 2005

1957 E Street, Room 113

1:00 - 2:00 M. Khovanov What is categorification?
2:00 - 2:30 Coffee break
2:30 - 2:50 L. Helme-Guizon A Khovanov-type cohomology theory for graphs
3:00 - 3:20 M. Chmutov Torsion in the chromatic cohomology of graphs
3:30 - 3:50 Edna Fanny Jasso Hernandez Categorification of the Tutte polynomial
3:50 - 4:30 Coffee break
4:30 - 4:50 Y. Rong A quadruply-graded graph homology for the Bollobas-Riordan polynomial
5:00 - 5:20 S. Chmutov Extreme parts of the Khovanov complex
5:30 - 5:50 K. Luse Knots with the same Jones polynomial



Saturday, December 10, 2005

Rome Hall Academic Center, 801 22nd Street, Room 459

10:00 - 10:30 Breakfast
10:30 - 11:20 L. Rozansky A categorification of the 2-variable and SU(N) HOMFLY-PT polynomials side by side
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 - 12:10 A. Shumakovitch Khovanov homology is stronger than the colored Jones polynomial
12:20 - 12:40 B. Audoux Khovanov homology and restricted isotopies
12:40 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:20 M. Khovanov Triply-graded link homology and Hochschild homology of Soergel bimodules
3:20 - 3:50 Coffee break
3:50 - 4:40 B. Webster Khovanov-Rozansky homology and a graphical calculus for tensor products
4:40 - 5:00 Coffee break
5:00 - 5:20 J. Przytycki Confluence of Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology
5:30 - 5:50 M. Pabiniak On torsion in the first A3 graph cohomology
6:00 - 6:20 R. Sazdanovic On the properties of the first graph cohomology over the algebra of truncated polynomials Am
7:00 Party at Józef's house



Sunday, December 11, 2005

Rome Hall Academic Center, 801 22nd Street, Room 459

10:00 - 10:30 Breakfast
10:30 - 11:20 P. Turner Unoriented TQFTs and link homology
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 - 12:10 A. Virelizier Hopf diagrams
12:20 - 12:40 K. Kawamuro Non-sharpness of the Morton Franks Williams inequality
12:50 - 1:10 L. Hernandez An application of TQFT: determining the girth of a knot
1:10 - 2:30 Lunch / Pizza at the Rome Hall
2:30 - 3:00 S. Morrison The Knot Atlas
3:10 - 3:30 K. Qazaqzeh Integral Bases for Certain TQFT-Modules of the Torus
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - 4:20 M. Niebrzydowski Burnside Kei (involutory quandle)