Knots in Washington XXXVIII: 30 years of the Jones polynomial
May 9-11, 2014
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU and UMCP), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

List of Talks

Carl Hammarsten Branched Spines approach to combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology
Louis H. Kauffman State Models and the Jones Polynomial
Louis H. Kauffman Virtual Knot Cobordism
Jerzy Kocik From Ehrfenfest hat to quantum computing
Samuel Lomonaco The Paradoxical IT
Melissa Macasieb Knot groups generated by two conjugate elements
Robert Owczarek Non-orthodox approaches in quantum computing
Jozef H. Przytycki q-polynomial invariant of rooted trees
Alexander Shumakovitch Odd homological operations on Khovanov homology
Jing Wang Introduction to Khovanov type graph homology for non-commutative algebras
Yilong Wang Random Walk Invariants of String Links via Representation Theory
Stephan Wehrli Commuting actions of sl(2) and S_n on sutured annular Khovanov homology
Hao Wu Two formulas for the MOY graph polynomial and an explicit so(6) homology
Seung Yeop Yang Twist Spinning of Knots and Graphs