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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)

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Knot Theory and some Invariants
by
Ansgar Wenzel
University of Sussex

I am going to give an introduction to General Knot Theory as well as biquandles. In particular, I am going to consider linear and quadratic biquandle functions (i.e. where fa, fb are linear or quadratic polynomials in two variables) and show that there is no commutative quadratic biquandle with quadratic coefficients. Finally, I aim to present a computer programme to calculate quandle and biquandle homology.

Date received: November 18, 2015

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