Knots in Washington XL in memory of Sergei Duzhin (1956-2015)
March 9-11, 2015
George Washington University and Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Paul Kainen (Georgetown U.), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

List of Talks

Michael Abel Categorified Young antisymmetrizers and stable HOMFLYPT homology of torus links
Lowell Abrams The Minimal Z_n-Symmetric Graphs That Are Not Z_n-Planar
Sergey Aganezov Scaffold assembly based on genome rearrangement analysis
Nikita Alexeev Breakpoint graph: transposition rate
Senja Barthel Braided molecules
Patricia Cahn Knots transverse to a vector field
Carmen Caprau A formula for the Dubrovnik polynomial of rational knots
Sergei Chmutov Remembering Sergei Duzhin
Ivan Dynnikov Annuli with Legendrian boundary
Eugene Gorsky Heegaard Floer homology of some L-space links
Paul C Kainen On topology in biology
Paul C Kainen Outer-surface drawings
Soojeong Kim Application of tangle theory to DNA topology
Adam Lowrance Odd torsion in the Khovanov homology of semi-adequate links
Vajira Manathunga A conjecture on amphicheiral knots
Kenneth A. Perko, Jr. A Short History of Non-cyclic Knot Theory
Nicolas Petit Finite-type invariants for virtual knots extending Goussarov-Polyak-Viro invariants
R. Sadykov Virtual Legenedrian Isotopy
Jonathan Schneider Satoh & Rourkes welded knots
Marithania SilveroCasanova On a conjecture of Louis H. Kauffman on alternative and pseudoalternating links
Matthew Yancey Bipartite communities