Knots in Washington XXVI Interconnections between Khovanov, Khovanov-Rozansky and Ozvath-Szabo homology, categorification of skein modules
April 18-20, 2008
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

List of Talks

V. Blanloeil Cobordism of fibered knots, applications to low dimensional algebraic knots.
Jeffrey Boerner Khovanov homology in thickened surfaces
Sergei Chmutov Polyak-Viro formulas for coefficients of the Conway polynomial.
Cornelia Van Cott Ozsváth-Szabó and Rasmussen invariants of cable knots
Oliver Dasbach Turaev surfaces and the determinant of a knot
Oguz C Durumeric Nonuniform Thickness and Weighted Distance
Alexander Fel'shtyn Dynamical zeta functions, Floer homology and categorification
Charles Frohman Parametrized Morse Theory on Foams and Network TQFT
Patrick Gilmer Weak congruence and the quantum ideal of a 3-manifold
Matthew Hedden On Floer homology and knots admitting lens space surgeries
Alexander Hoffnung Smooth spaces: convenient categories for differential geometry
Uwe Kaiser Frobenius algebras and skein modules of surfaces in 3-manifolds
Mikhail Khovanov How to categorify a quantum group
Adam Lowrance Knot Floer width and Turaev genus
Marco Mackaay Khovanov-Rozansky link homology using foams
Ciprian Manolescu The Khovanov and Floer homologies of quasi-alternating knots
Adam McDougall A Diagram-Free Link Homology
Annie Meyers Trivalent Graphs and the HOMFLYPT Polynomial
Heather Molle Quantum Hyperbolic Invariants
Sam Nelson Enhancements of Counting Invariants
Lenny Ng Knot homologies and transverse knots
Yi Ni Dehn surgeries that reduce the Thurston norm of a fibred manifold
Danielle O'Donnol Minor Minimal Intrinsically 3-linked Graphs
Krzysztof Putyra On generalization of odd Khovanov homologies
Masahico Saito On higher order relations of nested arcs
Kouki Taniyama Unknotting numbers of diagrams of a given nontrivial knot are unbounded
Robert Todd Looking for non-zero maps between isomorphism classes of tangles
Lorenzo Traldi Trip graphs of classical knots
Oleg Viro Twisted acyclicity of circle and link signatures
Steven D. Wallace A4-colored knots and their surgery equivalence
J.J. Wang On Combinatorial Floer homology
Liam Watson Khovanov homology and lens space surgeries
Ben Webster Springer fibers and disoriented knot homology
Stephan Wehrli A new categorification of the colored Jones polynomial