Schedule For Knots in Poland 2003
All talks from Monday, July 7
through Saturday, July 12 are in the Banach Center, 8 Sniadeckich
street, 4th floor, lecture hall.
Monday, July 7
10:00-11:00 Coffee and refreshments;
11:00 -11:15 Inauguration
11:30 - 12:30 Charlie Frohman, From classical to quantum invariants
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Christian Blanchet, On the link invariant associated
with spinors
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:00 James Conant, Do Vassiliev invariants distinguish knots?
17:15 -17:45 Mikhail Skopenkov, Embeddings products of graphs into
Euclidean space
Tuesday, July 8
10:00-11:00 Thang Le, Quantum invariants: recursion relations
and cyclotomic expansion
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Scott Carter, Knot Invariants Defined via AG-Quandle
Homology Theory
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Masahico Saito, Ribbon Concordance and Triple Point
Numbers of Knotted Surfaces and Quandle Cocycle Invariants
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:00 Ivelina Bobtcheva, How many different invariants of
3-manifolds can be constructed from the same Hopf algebra
and are those related?
17:15 -17:45 John Bryden, Semisimple Derived Categories
17:50 -18:20 Michele Mulazzani, (1,1)-Knots and Dunwoody Manifold
Wednesday, July 9
10:00-11:00 Kunio Murasugi, The twisted Alexander polynomial
of 2-bridge knots
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Ivan Dynnikov, Recognizing the unknot by using
a monotone reduction
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Thomas Fiedler, One parameter knot theory
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:00 Florian Deloup, The classification of quadratic linkings
17:15 -17:45 Cam Van Quach Hongler: On the adjacency relations
between Murasugi special components
Thursday, July 10
10:00-11:00 Hitoshi Murakami, Volume conjecture for non-simple knots
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Andrei Vesnin, On cyclic branched coverings
of 2-bridge knots
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Sergey Natanzon, Non-commutative extensions of
topological field theories
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:00 Gad Naot, On Chern-Simons theory with an
inhomogeneous gauge group
17:15 -17:45 Peter Akhmet'ev: On the generalized Sato-Levine
invariant and applications in magneto-hydrodynamics
Friday, July 11
10:00-11:00 Dror Bar-Natan, Introduction to Khovanov homology
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Oleg Viro, Naive categorifications: Khovanov homology
out of the Kauffman Bracket
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -15:30 Marta M. Asaeda, Khovanov homologies for products
of surfaces and an interval
15:40 -16:10 Magnus Jacobsson, An invariant of link cobordism from
Khovanov homology.
16:10 -16:40 Coffee break
16:40 -17:10 Alexander Shumakovitch, Torsion of the Khovanov homology
17:15 -17:45 Joze Malesic, Seifert circles, braid index and
the algebraic crossing number
18:00 Cheese and wine party at the Banach Center
Saturday, July 12
10:00-11:00 Misha Polyak, Polynomials and Cubic Complexes
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:00 Elmas Irmak, Superinjective Simplicial Maps of
Complexes of Curves and Injective Homomorphisms
of Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups
12:10 -12:40 Andreas Zastrow, On the (Non-)Uniqueness of Cartesian
Products of surfaces
Sunday, July 13
14:30 BUS to Bedlewo (in front of the Banach Center)
Monday, July 14
8:00 -9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Louis H. Kauffman, Virtual Knot Theory
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Sofia Lambropoulou, The algebraic classification
of links in 3-manifolds
13:00 -- Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Vassily Olegovich Manturov, New Invariant Polynomials
of Virtual Links
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:00 Paolo Bellingeri, New link invariants satisfying
cubic skein relation.
17:15 -17:45 Jozef Przytycki, 3-moves, 4-moves and rational
moves on links, obstructions and conjectures.
18:00 -- Dinner/Supper
Tuesday, July 15
8:00 - 9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Janos A. Makowsky, On the tree width of knots and links
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Norbert A'Campo, Generic immersed curves in
the disk and their links
13:00 -- Lunch
15:00 -15:30 Gwenael Massuyeau, Cohomology rings, Rochlin
functions, linking pairings and the
Goussarov-Habiro theory of three-manifolds
15:40 -16:10 Jean-Baptiste Meilhan, Goussarov-Habiro theory
for homology cylinders
16:10 -16:40 Coffee break
16:40 -17:10 Ivan Izmestiev, Unfoldings of triangulations: a
simplicial version of Hilden-Montesinos theorem
18:00 - Dinner/Supper
Wednesday, July 16
8:00 - 9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Nathan Geer, Invariants coming from the super
general linear groups, gl(m|n)
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Anna Beliakova, Geometric construction of spinors
in orthogonal modular categories
13:00 -- Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Hugh R. Morton, Reverse string satellites and
Homfly polynomials.
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:15 Mikami Hirasawa, The crosscap number
of 2-bridge knots
17:30 -18:00 Oleg Karpenkov, On some particular energies of knots
18:15 -18:45 Vladimir Vershinin, Sergiescu presentation for
generalizations of braids.
19:00 -- Grill party in the park
20:00 -- Bonfire in the park
Thursday, July 17
8:00 -9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Thomas Kerler, Unraveling the Structure of
the Reshetikhin Turaev TQFT
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Alexander Mednykh, Hyperbolic volumes of knot and
link cone manifolds.
12:30 -Lunch
13:15 -19:00 Excursion
19:00 -Dinner/supper
Friday, July 18
8:00 -9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Gregor Masbaum, On the colored Jones polynomial
of twist knots
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:30 Patrick M. Gilmer, The even cobordism category
13:00 - Lunch
15:00 -16:00 Uwe Kaiser, Skein theory and topology of mapping spaces
16:00 -16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:00 Maciej Mroczkowski, Homflypt and Kauffman Skein
modules of L(2,1)
18:00 Dinner/Supper
Saturday, July 19
8:00 -9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Roger Fenn, What have the equations
got to do with virtual knots and links?
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:00 Alessia Cattabriga (1,1) -knots via the mapping class group of the
twice punctured torus.
12:15 -12:45 Ruben Vigara, Representing 3-manifolds by filling Dehn spheres.
13:00 -Lunch
Monday, July 21
8:00 -9:55 Breakfast
10:00 -11:00 Ulrich Koschorke, Nielsen coincidence theory in hogher codimensions
and link maps.
11:00 -11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:00 Rama Mishra, Minimal degree sequence of torus knots
13:00 -- Lunch
15:00-15:30 Marina Pashkevich, On hyperbolic volume of the Borromean
link cone manifolds
15:40-16:10 Laure Helme-Guizon, Approximation of the coefficients of the
HOMFLYPT polynomial by Vassiliev invariants
16:10-16:40 Coffee break
16:40-17:10 Akiko Shima, On surface braids of index four with at most
two crossings.
17:25-17:55 Valerij Georgievich Bardakov, Some property of the braid groups.
18:00 Dinner/supper
TUESDAY, July 22
8:00-9:55 Breakfast
10:00-13:00 Group discussions/excursion time
13:00 -- Lunch
15:00-15:50 Joao Faria Martins, Some remarks on quantum knot invariants
arising from non-compact groups.
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:40-17:00 Vassily Olegovich Manturov, Invariants of long virtual
(and classical) links
18:00 Dinner/supper
WEDNESDAY, July 23
8:00-9:55 Breakfast
10:00-11:00 U. Kaiser, H. Morton, J. H. Przytycki,
Introduction to Skein Modules, I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 U. Kaiser, H. Morton, J. H. Przytycki,
Introduction to Skein Modules, II
13:00 -- Lunch
15:00-18:00 Workshop on Skein Modules
19:00 Grill party in the park
20:00 Bonfire in the park -- a celebration of 100 years anniversary of the birth of
Prof. Wladyslaw Orlicz.
THURSDAY, July 24
8:00-9:55 Breakfast
10:00-11:00 Alexander Fel'shtyn, Reidemeister torsion and
counting periodic orbits.
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 John Bryden, Seifert's linking form conjecture.
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-19:00 Excursion to Poznan
19:00 Dinner/supper
FRIDAY, July 25
8:00-9:55 Breakfast
10:00-13:00 Group discussions/excursion time
13:00 -- Lunch
18:00 Dinner/supper