Knots in Washington XXIX; 30 years of quandles, 10 years of Khovanov homology
December 4-6, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

List of Talks

Jonathan Bloom Odd Khovanov homology, mutation, and branched double covers
Patricia Cahn A Generalization of the Turaev Cobracket and the Minimal Self-Intersection Number of a Curve on a Surface
Scott Carter Categorification of Quandles: Strict 2-Quandles
Dwayne Chambers Topological Symmetry Groups of the Complete Graphs K_4q+3
Sergei Chmutov Linking numbers and the Conway polynomial of virtual links
Paul C. Kainen Crossing-free matchings in regular outerplane drawings
Mikhail Khovanov Adventures in categorification
Mikhail Khovanov Categorification of quantum groups
Daniel Krasner Graphical calculus of Soergel bimodules in Khovanov-Rozansky link homology.
Aaron Lauda A categorification of quantum sl(2).
Thang Le Integrality of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev 3-manifold invariant
Adam Levine Slicing Mixed Bing-Whitehead Doubles and Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology
Samuel J. Lomonaco Quantum Knots and Lattices
Sam Nelson Rack shadows and their invariants
Ina Petkova Cables of thin knots and bordered Heegaard Floer homology
Jozef H. Przytycki The second quandle homology of Takasaki keis (quandles)
Masahico Saito Algebraic Structures Derived from Foams and TQFTs
Scott Carter and Masahico Saito Quandle homology and applications - An overview
Dragomir Saric Circle homeomorphisms and shears
Radmila Sazdanovic SLarc algebra and what it categorifies
Alexander Shumakovitch Homologically Z₂-thin knots have no 4-torsion in Khovanov homology.
Hao Wu A colored sl(N)-homology for links in S^3