Knots in Washington XXXII, Categorification of Knots, Algebras, and Quandles; Quantum Computing
April 29 - May 1, 2011
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

List of Talks

Samson Abramsky The topology of non-locality and contextuality
Wesley Calvert The Geometry of Undecidability
Carmen Caprau Trivalent graphs and the Kauffman polynomial
J. Scott Carter Theory of Quandles
Vladimir Chernov Causality in spacetimes and Legendrian linking
Bob Coecke From topology, via quantum entanglement, to arithmetic.
Razvan Gelca Representations of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of the punctured torus
Robert Ghrist Towards Categorification in Applied Mathematics
Noboru Ito A relation between Khovanov homology and Kirby moves
Thomas Kerler Gauge Twists and Hennings TQFT's
Mikhail Khovanov Categorification of quantum groups
David A. Krebes "What you can tell about a link from the way it intersects a ball"; based on " An Obstruction to Embedding 4-Tangles in Links"
Joan Licata Invariants for knots in circle bundles
Sam Nelson BiKei and unoriented link invariants
Robert Owczarek Is quantum computing with superfluid helium possible: a potential role of Khovanov homology
Jozef H. Przytycki Weak and very weak simplicial modules: application to homology of distributive structures
Krzysztof Putyra Mirror knots have dual odd Khovanov homology
Matt Sequin Comparing Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds
Adam S Sikora Distributive products and their homology
Ted Turner Shift automorphisms of free groups and homeomorphisms of graphs