Knots in Washington XXXIII; Categorification of Knots, Algebras, and Quandles; Quantum Computing
December 2-4, 2011
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU),Mark Kidwell (U.S. Naval Academy and GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

List of Talks

Cody Armond The Head and Tail of the Colored Jones Polynomial
Cheryl Balm Cosmetic crossings and genus-one knots
Jessica Banks The Kakimizu complex of a link
Vladimir Baranovsky Graph homology and configuration spaces
Michael Brandenbursky 3-variable Laurent polynomial invariant of braids
Patricia Cahn The Andersen-Mattes-Reshetikhin Bracket Counts Intersections
J. Scott Carter Introducing knotted n-foams and how to construct invariants thereof
Alissa S Crans A Survey of Quandle Theory
William De la Cruz On the Construction of Hamiltonian Operators for Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Mohamed Elhamdadi Galkin quandles and colorings of knots
Matthew Graham Grid Movie Moves and Combinatorial Knot Floer Homology
Jerzy Kocik The magic behind quantum computing: Chapter √-1
Asa Levi Vassiliev Invariants of Virtual Framed and Virtual Legendrian Knots
Adam Levine Combinatorial Spanning Tree Models for Knot Homologies
Andrew Lobb 2-strand twisting in Khovanov-Rozansky homology.
Samuel J. Lomonaco Quantizing Braids and Other Mathematical Structures
Adam Lowrance An odd categorification of the Tutte polynomial
Andrew Manion Signs in totally twisted Khovanov homology
Jonathan Mizrahi Ultrafast Gates for Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
Sam Nelson Virtual Shadow Modules and their Link Invariants
Krzysztof Putyra Mayer-Vietoris sequence for multispindles
Masahico Saito DNA Recombination Model via Spatial Graphs with 4-Rigid Vertices
Cotton Seed Computations of Szabo's geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology
Omar Shehab Grid2Mosaic2Grid: A Complete Pair of Polynomial Knot Algorithms
Anastasiia Tsvietkova An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements
Stephan Wehrli Khovanov's diagram algebras and bordered Floer homology
Hao Wu The sl(N) Rasmussen invariants of (2, 2k+1) cable knots
Tian Yang The Skein Algebra of Punctured Surfaces
Akira Yasuhara Milnor invariants and the HOMFLYPT polynomial
Alexander Zupan Pants distance, twist number, and volume of hyperbolic 2-bridge knots