KNOTS in POLAND 2010

Schedule

Warsaw

Monday, 19/07
9:30 – 10:00Registration
10:00 – 11:00Józef Przytycki: Knot theory from Listing to Mrowka
11:30 – 12:30Alessia Cattabriga: Plat presentation of links in 3-manifolds
15:00 – 16:00William Menasco: Recent work on the Markow Theorem without stabilization
16:30 – 17:00Zsuzsanna Dancso: Pentagon and hexagon equations---following Furusho
17:15 – 18:00Bronisław Wajnryb: Branched coverings of a disk
Tuesday, 20/07
10:00 – 11:00Michael Polyak: Enumerative geometry, knots and finite type invariants
11:30 – 12:30Oliver Dasbach: Turaev genus, knot signature, and other invariants
15:00 – 16:00Kunio Murasugi: On roots of the Alexander polynomial of an alternating knot
16:30 – 17:00Alexandr Kazantsev: Is it possible to detect the satellite structure of a link by monotonic simplification?
17:15 – 18:00Nafaa Chbili: Graph skein modules and symmetry of spatial graphs
Wednesday, 21/07
10:00 – 11:00Paolo Bellingeri: Bigelow-Krammer-Lawrence representations and lower central series of (surface) braid groups
11:30 – 12:30Maciej Borodzik: Signatures of knots and semicontinuity relation of spectra of plane algebraic curves
15:00 – 16:00Effie Kalfagianni: Guts of surfaces and colored Jones polynomials
16:30 – 17:00Karin Valencia: Topological characterization of knots and links arising as products of site-specific recombination on twist knots
17:15 – 18:00Micah Chrisman: Combinatorial formulae for virtual knot invariants
Thursday, 22/07
10:00 – 11:00Carmen Caprau: On a categorification of the colored Jones polynomial
11:30 – 12:30Vassily O. Manturov: Free knots, parity, graph-links, and cobordisms
15:00 – 16:00Hugh Morton: Satellites, knot invariants and meridian maps
16:30 – 17:00Piotr Przytycki: Contractibility of the Kakimizu complex
17:15 – 18:00Pedro M. Gonzáles Manchón: Homogeneous links and the Seifert matrix
Friday, 23/07
10:00 – 11:00Vladimir Vershinin: Braids and algebraic topology
11:30 – 12:30Joanna Kania-Bartoszyńska: Topological applications of quantum invariants
15:00 – 16:00Michele Mulazzani: On the complexity of cyclic branched coverings of some families of knots, links and graphs
16:30 – 17:30Jim Cannon: Constructing cyclic branched covers