Knots in Washington XLVI: 70th Birthday of Oleg Viro;
May 4-6, 2018
George Washington University,
Washington, DC, USA

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

List of Talks

Rhea Palak Bakshi On the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of the thickened T-shirt
Johan Björklund Real flexible knots and real symplectic knots.
Patricia Cahn Colored Tri-Plane Diagrams and Branched Covers of the Four-Sphere
Alex Chandler Torsion in the Khovanov homology of 3-strand torus links
Jie Chen Obstructions of algebraic Gordian distance one
Micah Chrisman Virtual Seifert Surfaces
Ben Cooper Hall Algebras of Surfaces
Nathan Dowlin Relationships between quantum and Heegaard Floer Invariants
Ivan Dynnikov, Maxim Prasolov Basic moves of rectangular diagrams of surfaces
David Freund Minimizing intersections points of flat virtual links
Robin Gaudreau Fully classifying virtual string links up to cobordisms
Eugene Gorsky Hilbert schemes and y-ification of Khovanov-Rozansky homology
Ilia Itenberg Finite real algebraic curves
Paul Kainen An Euler-type theorem for the 2-complex of cubes
Louis H Kauffman Virtual Link Cobordism
Viatcheslav Kharlamov Little variations on the theme of counting real lines.
Mikhail Khovanov Link homology: matrix factorizations and foam evaluations
Jerzy Kocik Stern-Brocot-like trees, continued fractions, and topology
Sudipta Kolay Lifting branched covers to braided embeddings
Slava Krushkal Engel relations and 4-manifolds
Jesse S. F. Levitt The Walks Model of the Color Jones Polynomial and some Applications
Samuel Lomonaco Quantum Knots Revisited
Adam Lowrance Are almost alternating links semi-adequate?
Sujoy Mukherjee On odd torsion in even Khovanov homology
Grégoire Naisse 2-Verma modules and the Khovanov-Rozansky link homologies, II
Sam Nelson Trace Digarams and Biquandle Brackets
Stepan Orevkov On real algebraic knots and links in RP^3
Ken Perko Looking at Linking Numbers
Nicolas Petit Index polynomials for virtual tangles
Puttipong Pongtanapaisan Upper bounds on Virtual Bridge Numbers
Maxim Prasolov Exchange classes of rectangular diagrams, Legendrian knots, and the knot symmetry group
Jozef H. Przytycki Learning from the masters: four lessons from Oleg
Nancy Scherich An Application of Salem Numbers to Braid Group Representations
Dan Scofield On the Jones polynomial via Khovanov and chromatic homology
Victor Summers Torsion in the Khovanov Homology of Closed 3-Braids
Pedro Vaz 2-Verma modules and the Khovanov-Rozansky link homologies, I
Oleg Viro Links in the projective space
Petr Vojtěchovský Enumerating quandles and racks up to isomorphism
Zhongtao Wu On Alexander polynomials of graphs
Seung Yeop Yang Homology theory of non-degenerate involutive set-theoretic solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation