We will start from the Plenary Talk at the Topology Seminar:
Friday, September 24, Time: 2:30 PM
Speaker: Witold Rosicki, Gdansk University
Title: Coloring and other Quandle invariants of surfaces in 4-manifolds
Place: Funger Hall Room 307
The Departmental Colloquium before the conference is of interest as
well:
Speaker: Bill Minicozzi, The Johns Hopkins University
Title: Embedded minimal surfaces and three manifold topology
Place: Funger Hall Room 223
Coffee and cookies will be served in Funger 223 before the talk
(about 11:30 we will go with both speakers for lunch)
We will continue,on Saturday in Funger 428 (seminar room).
10:00 - 10:30am Coffee and refreshments
10:30 - 11:20 Ted Stanford (U.S. Naval Academy),
Knots and links modulo braid subgroups
11:30 - 11:55 Mike Veve (GWU),
Open problems in billiard knots
12:05 - 12:30 Mark E. Kidwell (U.S. Naval Academy),
Solution to a conjecture of Stoimenow about plane curves
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:25 Maxim Sokolov (GWU),
Dichromatic skein modules and invariants of 3-manifolds
2:30 - 2:55 Tatsuya Tsukamoto (GWU and Waseda Univ.)
The fourth skein module, the Montesinos-Nakanishi
conjecture and n-algebraic links.
2:55 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 3:40 Adam Sikora (UMD),
Skein modules at the 4-th roots of unity
3:45 - 4:10 Jozef H.Przytycki (GWU and UMD),
Positive knots and their properties.
4:15 - 4:40 Yongwu Rong (GWU)
Mutations and the Alexander polynomial
Local Organizers:
J.Przytycki (przytyck@gwu.edu, jhp@math.umd.edu), Y.Rong (rong@gwu.edu)