KNOTS in WASHINGTON XII Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
May 10-12, 2001
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Dubravko Ivansic, Ilya Kofman, Jozef H. Przytycki, Yongwu Rong, Akira Yasuhara

List of Talks

Lowell Abrams Frobenius algebras, 2-dimensional surfaces ... and knots?
Jan Dymara Survey of Tits buildings
Kasia Dymara Legendrian knots in overtwisted contact structures
Sara Faridi Rees Algebras
Bill Goldman The Lie algebra of curves on surfaces
Makiko Ishiwata A surgery description of an integral homology three-sphere respecting the Casson invariant
Uwe Kaiser Skein modules, quantum deformations and string topology
Louis H Kauffman Infinite number of nontrivial links with trivial Jones polynomial
Thomas Kerler Skein theory for the Alexander Polynomial of 3-Manifolds via Hopf algebras
Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr. Invariants of Quantum Entanglement
Thomas Mattman Seifert surgeries and the (-3, 3, 5) pretzel knot.
Makoto Ozawa Impossibility of obtaining split links from split links via twistings
Jozef H. Przytycki Lagrangian approximation of local moves on links
Adam S. Sikora Interactions between quantum topology and number theory
Daniel Slilaty Homological characterizations of planar and projective planar graphs.
Mike Veve The cubic skein module, Fox 7-colorings and unknotting number.
Akira Yasuhara C_k-moves on spatial theta-curves and Vassiliev invariants