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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)

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Virtual Knot Cobordism
by
Louis H. Kauffman
Math UIC, Chicago, IL 60607-7045

This talk will outline, with examples, a theory of virtual knot cobordism that generalizes classical knot

cobordism and has many interesting properties and problems. One particular problem we are

interested in is the classification of virtual knots up to band-passing (as in the classical case this means switching

pairs of oppositely oriented arcs) and the relationship of this classification with concordance of virtual knots.

Date received: May 6, 2014

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