Knots in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman
February 11-13, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA and Univ. de Caen), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

List of Talks

Dror Bar-Natan I've computed Kh(T(9, 5)) and I'm happy
Isabel K. Darcy 3-string tangle analysis of Mu transposase
Oliver Dasbach On Kauffman's spanning tree expansion of the Alexander polynomial
Alan Durfee Polynomial and Rational knots
H. A. Dye Realizations of Virtual Link Diagrams.
Stavros Garoufalidis On the Generalized Hyperbolic Volume Conjecture
Laure Helme-Guizon A Khovanov-type homology theory for graphs
Chun-Chung Hsieh Linking in knot theory
Gyo Taek Jin Quadrisecants and quadrisecant approximations of knots
Paul Kainen Robust bases and transformations of knotted cycles
Uwe Kaiser Generalization of a formula of Przytycki
Louis H. Kauffman Spin Networks and Anyonic Topological Quantum Computing
Keiko Kawamuro The algebraic crossing number of closed braids
Mikhail Khovanov Categorification of the Kauffman bracket and equivariant cohomology
Sofia Lambropoulou Virtual braids and the L-move
Ruth Lawrence The slope conjecture for surgery around knots
Thang Le On the Kauffman bracket skein modules, the Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial
Xiao-Song Lin On n-punctured ball tangles
Sóstenes Lins Blobs and Flips on Gems
Hugh R. Morton The meridian maps in skein theory
Harriet Moser A method to prove that a manifold has a complete hyperbolic structure.
Kunio Murasugi The twisted Alexander polynomials
Jozef H. Przytycki Survey on the Kauffman bracket skein modules of 3-manifolds
David E. Radford Some generalizations of quasitriangular Hopf algebras which give rise to invariants of knots and links
J. Scott Carter and Masahico Saito Fox colorings for the number of Reidemeister moves and colored chirality
Shin Satoh Disk presentations of surface-knots and -links
Alexander Shumakovitch Rasmussen Invariant, Slice-Bennequin Inequality, and Sliceness of Knots
Fernando J. O. Souza On non-additive versions of the Kauffman-Radford reformulation of the Hennings invariant (KRH invariant.)
Julia Viro Lines and circles meeting links
Oleg Viro Khovanov homology of virtual knots
Susan Williams Alexander groups of long virtual knots
David De Wit How the Links-Gould invariants generalise the Alexander-Conway polynomial
D. N. Yetter Non-linear Finite Type Invariants