20. Knot Theory

18.09.2014 (Thursday)

TimeTitleLecturer
14:30-15:20On Deformations of the Hoste-Przytycki Homotopy Skein ModulesUwe Kaiser
15:30-15:55Splitting number of linksMaciej Borodzik
16:00-16:25Remarks on the braid index of singular linksLeonid Plachta
16:30-17:00Coffee
17:00-17:50Skeins, characters and traceJoanna Kania-Bartoszyńska
18:00-18:25Framizations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra and related links invariantsDimos Goundaroulis
18:30-18:55On certain spectral sequence converging to Khovanov homologyWojciech Politarczyk

19.09.2014 (Friday)

TimeTitleLecturer
14:30-15:20Bounds on the hyperbolic volume of links, and the colored Jones polynomialOliver Dasbach
15:30-15:55On a triple-graded (odd) Khovanov homologyKrzysztof Putyra
16:00-16:25A singular braid view to knotted surfacesMichał Jabłonowski
16:30-17:00Coffee
17:00-17:25Cocykle invariants of codimension 2 embeddings of manifoldsWitold Rosicki
17:30-17:55Links with binary relationsMaciej Niebrzydowski
18:00-18:25Connecting distributive homology and Khovanov homology, via Yang-Baxter operatorsJózef H. Przytycki
18:30-18:55Knot homologies and BPS statesPiotr Sułkowski