Dedicated to Herbert Seifert on his 100 birthday
SCHEDULE
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Susan Williams, Dan Silver (U South Alabama) |
From Nuts to Knots: An irreverent look at
the origins of Knot Theory |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Coffee break |
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| 3:00 - 3:25 | Heather Russell (U.Iowa) |
The Bar-Natan skein module of the
solid torus and the homology of (n, n) Springer varieties |
| 3:30 - 3:55 | Jozef H. Przytycki | Torsion in H^{2,v(G)-2}_{A_2}(G) and its applications to Khovanov homology of adequate diagrams |
| 3:55 - 4:30 | Coffee break |
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| 4:30 - 4:55 | Jeff Boerner (U.Iowa) |
Khovanov Homology of Links Embedded in I-bundles |
| 5:05 - 5:45 | Danielle O'Donnol (UCLA) |
Intrinsically n-linked spatial graphs |
Saturday, December 8, 2007
DUQUES
2201 G St. NW Room 258
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Mark Kidwell (USNA, Annapolis) | The historical significance of Herbert Seifert's paper 'Ueber das Geschlecht von Knoten' |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50 - 12:40 | Qi Chen (Winston-Salem State University) | The Gram determinant of the type-B Temperley-Lieb algebra |
| 12:40 - 12:50 | Coffee break |
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| 12:50 - 1:40 | Susan Williams, Dan Silver (U South Alabama) | When Knots Don't Fiber |
| 1:40 - 3:00 | Lunch (Pizza provided by organizers) | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 | Slava Krushkal (U Virginia) | Chromatic algebra and applications |
| 3:50 - 4:00 | Coffee break | |
| 4:00 - 4:40 | Adam S. Sikora(SUNY Buffalo) |
Quantizations of Character Varieties of the torus |
| 4:50 - 5:30 | Irmgard Buehler (Zurich, Switzerland ) | Unified SO(3)-quantum invariants for rational homology 3-spheres. |
| 5:30 - 5:40 | Coffee break |
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| 5:40 - 6:05 | Yongwu Rong (GWU) |
Clock moves and a combinatorial
homology |
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Rome Hall
801 22nd Street Room 459
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | |
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Dragomir Saric (CUNY, Queens College) |
The Teichmüller distance between finite index subgroups of PSL2(Z) |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Steven Wallace (Louisiana State University) |
Surgery description of colored knots |
| 12:25 - 12:50 | Hao Wu (GWU) |
Matrix factorizations and colored
MOY graphs |
| 12:50 - 1:45 | Lunch (Pizza provided by organizers) | |
| 2:00- 2:50 | Marta Asaeda (UC Riverside) |
Exotic TQFT: a new developement |
| 2:50 - 3:00 | Coffee break |
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| 3:00 - 3:25 | Jennifer Chubb (GWU) |
Effectively closed sets and orderings
on groups |
| 3:30 - 3:55 | Sarah Pingrey (GWU) |
Orders on computable torsion-free
abelian groups |
Abstracts can be viewed at: http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/abstract/cavo-01