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