Knots in Washington XLV
December 8-10, 2017
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

All parts of Knot Theory and its Ramifications are covered by the conference.

Michael Abel Colored Khovanov-Rozansky homology of infinite braids
Patricia Cahn Ribbon Obstructions and Singular Branched Covers of Four-Manifolds
J. Scott Carter A Prismatic Classifying Space
Zhiyun Cheng Chord index and its applications in virtual knot theory
Vladimir Chernov Some Corollaries of Manturov's projection Theorem
Amanda Curtis An introduction to Spiders and Projectors
David Freund Complexity of Virtual Multistrings
Trang Ha Order Relations on Computable Magmas
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska Unicity for Representations of the Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra
Louis H Kauffman Knotoids, Virtual Knots and Applications
Louis H Kauffman Signed Cyclic Graphs, Checkerboards and Virtual Links
Mikhail Khovanov Categorification of integers with two inverted
Hee Jung Kim 1-stable equivalence of knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds
Slava Krushkal Applications of TQFT to the structure of the Yamada and flow polynomials
Joel Brewster Lewis Circuits and Hurwitz action in finite root systems
Samuel J. Lomonaco The search for simplicity in higher dimensional knot theory.
Tomo Murao The tunnel number of handlebody-knots and G-families of biquandles
Sam Nelson Psyquandles, Singular Knots and Pseudoknots
Krzysztof Putyra Quantization of the annular Khovanov homology
Radmila Sazdanovic On factorization and chromatic graph homology
Jonathan Schneider Fiberwise isotopies of toral surfaces
Marithania Silvero Semiadequate links and second to extreme Khovanov homology.
Huan Vo On meta-monoids and the Alexander polynomial
Xiao Wang Torsion in Khovanov Homology and links with smoothing number one
Melissa Zhang A rank inequality for the annular Khovanov homology of 2-periodic links