Knots in Washington XXIII; Quandles, their homology and ramifications
November 17-19, 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

Kheira Ameur Polynomial Quandle Cocycles, Their knot invariants and Applications
John Armstrong Functors extending the Kauffman Bracket
Carmen Caprau A sl(2) tangle homology for seamed cobordisms with polynomial coefficients.
Scott Carter Infiltration of elaborate schemes
Alissa S. Crans Quandle Queries
Michael Eisermann Interpretation of quandle invariants in terms of knot group representations
Mohamed Elhamdadi The adjoint of Hopf algebras and cohomology
Laure Helme-Guizon A categorification for the Tutte polynomial for matroids: From a matroid M, we produce a chain complex whose graded Euler Characteristic is the Tutte polynomial of M.
Kerry Luse A categorifcation for the Penrose polynomial
Maciej Niebrzydowski Homology of dihedral quandles I
Jozef H. Przytycki Homology of dihedral quandles II
Yongwu Rong A quick trip through combinatorial knot Floer homology
Domingo Ruiz Quaternions and Rotations
Masahico Saito Applications, constructions, and interpretations of quandle cocycles
Dragomir Saric Virtual automorphisms as mapping classes
Shin SATOH The sheet numbers of 2-knots with non-trivial fundamental quandles