Knots in Washington XXII
May 5-7, 2006
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), przytyck@gwu.edu, Yongwu Rong (GWU), rong@gwu.edu, Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), shurik@gwu.edu

List of Talks

John Armstrong The Extension of "Topological-Style" Link Invariants to Tangles
Anna Beliakova Unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant for integral and rational homology 3-spheres
J. Scott Carter Introduction to Quandles and Their Cohomology
Alissa Crans Quandles and colagebras
Mohamed Elhamdadi Biquandles and knots invariants
Petit Jerome The Turaev-Viro and the related TQFT in the case of Group Category
Seiichi Kamada Quandles with good involutions, linear biquandles and knot invariants
Mikhail Khovanov A categorification of the Burau representation
Sean Lawton Symmetries in the SL(3, C)-Character Variety of a Rank 2 Free Group
Scott Morrison Disoriented and confused: fixing the functoriality of Khovanov homology
Sam Nelson Quandle difference invariants
Maciej Niebrzydowski On tangle embeddings; quandles and quandle polynomials
Milena Pabiniak On the first group of A₃ cohomology of graphs
Elisha Peterson Spin Networks and SL(2, C)-Character Varieties
Jozef H. Przytycki Combinatorial patterns in Khovanov type graph homology motivated by Hochschild homology
Jacob Rasmussen Some differentials on Khovanov-Rozansky homology
Yongwu Rong An isomorphism between Tutte homology for graphs and Khovanov homology for links
Masahico Saito Some new developments in quandle cohomology theory - computations, applications and quandles in tensor categories
Radmila Sazdanovic Torsion in the first group of the chromatic graph cohomology over algebras Z[x]/(x^m)
Christopher Truman Turaev torsion of 3-manifolds with boundary