Knots in Washington XLI
December 4-6, 2015
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

List of Talks

Areski Nait Abdallah The logic of partial information and Bohr's complementarity principle in Quantum Mechanics
Michael Abel Stable homology of torus links via categorified Young antisymmetrizers
Lowell Abrams Dualities and Trialities from Ribbon Group Stabilizers
Kathryn Bryant Obstructing Sliceness in Odd Pretzel Knots
Zhiyun Cheng Index type invariants of virtual knots
Vladimir Chernov Universal Orderability of Legendrian Isotopy Classes
Ben Cooper Formal Contact Categories
Peter Feller Bounding the topological slice genus using the Seifert pairing.
Charles Frohman Quantum in variants of three manifolds equipped with an SL(2, C) representation of its fundamental group.
Patrick M. Gilmer Signature Jumps and Alexander Polynomials for Links
Iva Halacheva Two Generalizations of the Multivariable Alexander Polynomial
Neil R Hoffman Asymmetric knots with two cyclic surgeries
Mark Hughes Braid rank and detecting quasipositivity of braids.
Kyle Istvan The Kauffman Polynomial of Periodic Links
Paul C. Kainen Every empire has a defendable border region
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska Structure of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a surface
Louis H Kauffman Rotational Virtual Links and Quantum Link Invariants
Louis H Kauffman Homotopy Theory of Link Homology via the Dold-Kan Theorem
Mikhail Khovanov Linearization and categorification
Slava Krushkal Geometric complexity of embeddings
Hwa Jeong Lee On the arc index of cable links and Whitehead doubles
Samue Lomonaco Higher Dimensional Knot Theory: How I stumbled upon the results
Adam Lowrance Signatures and Turaev Genera of Knots
Vajira Manathunga Extracting integer invariants from a power series expansion of the Jones polynomial
Sam Nelson Biquandle Brackets
Nicholas Owad Recent results concerning bridge spectrum
Nicholas Owad 3D printing for knot theory and topology
Krzysztof K Putyra On categorical traces and homology for links in a solid torus
David E. V. Rose Khovanov-Rozansky homology and current algebras
Migiwa Sakurai Examples of virtual knots with vanishing n-writhes
Lauren Scanlon Cultural Evolution of Material Knot Diversity
Leo Selker Parity Biquandle Invariants of Virtual Knots
Reiko Shinjo Complementary regions of knot diagrams and the canonical genus of knots
Adam S. Sikora Zero-divisors and central elements in skein algebras
Marithania Silvero A geometric realization of extreme Khovanov homology.
Marithania Silvero Khovanov homology, independence complex and H-thick knots
Jason Suagee A generalization of α-orientations to higher genus surfaces
Hideo Takioka The cable Γ-polynomial of a knot
Kokoro Tanaka The canonical genus of Whitehead doubles of non-prime alternating knots
Oleg Viro Real algebraic knot theories
Kodai Wada The Milnor invariants of clover links
Liangxia Wan On the genus of a graph
Stephan Wehrli A (mostly) combinatorial proof of the homology cobordism classification of lens spaces
Ansgar Wenzel Knot Theory and some Invariants
Michael Willis The Kauffman Bracket of Infinite Braids