Swiss Knots 2011

Knot Theory and Algebra

Lake Thun, May 23-27

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Monday, 23.05.11
Time SpeakerTitlePlace
09:00-09:50Vaughan F.R. Jones
(UC Berkeley)
An intriguing duality in planar algebra algebraGwatt Zentrum
10:00-10:50Mikhail Khovanov
(Columbia University)
Categorification of quantum groupsGwatt Zentrum
10:50-11:20Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
11:20-12:10Louis H. Kauffman
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Virtual Knots, Parity and Categorifications of the Arrow PolynomialGwatt Zentrum
12:10-15:00LunchGwatt Zentrum
15:00-15:50Aaron Lauda
(Columbia University)
The structure of categorified representation theoryGwatt Zentrum
15:50-16:30Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
16:30-17:20Radmila Sazdanovic
(University of Pennsylvania)
Categorification of the polynomial ringGwatt Zentrum
17:30-18:20Jozef Przytycki
(George Washington University)
Homology of distributive structures: monoid of binary operations and examples of computationGwatt Zentrum
Tuesday, 24.05.11
Time SpeakerTitlePlace
09:00-09:50Vladimir Turaev
(University of Indiana)
KnotoidsGwatt Zentrum
10:00-10:50Thang Le
(School of Mathematics, Georgia Inst. of Technology)
Torsion growth and Mahler measureGwatt Zentrum
10:50-11:20Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
11:20-12:10Poster sessionGwatt Zentrum
12:10-15:00LunchGwatt Zentrum
15:00-15:50David A. Kazhdan
(Hebrew University)
Associators and the Quantization of Lie BialgebrasGwatt Zentrum
15:50-16:30Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
16:30-17:20Anton Alekseev
(Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève)
Denominators of rational Drinfeld associators and Kontsevich knot invariantGwatt Zentrum
17:30-18:20Dror Bar-Natan
(University of Toronto)
Facts and Dreams About v-Knots and Etingof-KazhdanGwatt Zentrum
Wednesday, 25.05.11
Time SpeakerTitlePlace
09:00-09:50Kazuo Habiro
(RIMS)
Quantum fundamental groups and quantum representation varieties for 3-manifoldsGwatt Zentrum
10:00-10:50Christian Blanchet
(Université Paris 7)
Non commutative homological representations of Torelli groupsGwatt Zentrum
10:50-11:20Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
11:20-12:10Gwénaël Massuyeau
(IRMA - Strasbourg)
Surgery equivalence relations on homology cylinders and the core of the Casson invariantGwatt Zentrum
12:10-14:00LunchGwatt Zentrum
14:00-18:00ExcursionGwatt Zentrum
Thursday, 26.05.11
Time SpeakerTitlePlace
09:00-09:50Rinat Kashaev
(Universität Genf)
Monoidal categories and invariants of links in 3-manifoldsGwatt Zentrum
10:00-10:50Francesco Costantino
(University of Strasbourg)
On generating series of classical spin networksGwatt Zentrum
10:50-11:20Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
11:20-12:10David Cimasoni
(ETHZ)
The generalized Kac-Ward formulaGwatt Zentrum
12:10-15:00LunchGwatt Zentrum
15:00-15:50Stephan Wehrli
(Syracuse University)
Khovanov-Seidel quiver algebras and bordered Floer homologyGwatt Zentrum
15:50-16:30Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
16:30-17:20Matthew Hedden
(Michigan State University)
The Khovanov module and unlink detectionGwatt Zentrum
17:30-18:20Paul Turner
(University of Geneva and University of Fribourg)
Does stable homotopy theory have anything to say about Khovanov homology?Gwatt Zentrum
Friday, 27.05.11
Time SpeakerTitlePlace
09:00-09:50Oleg Viro
(Stony Brook University)
Elevating link homology theories and TQFT'es via infinite cyclic coveringsGwatt Zentrum
10:00-10:50Michael Polyak
(Technion)
Knots, trivalent graphs and graph cohomologyGwatt Zentrum
10:50-11:20Coffee breakGwatt Zentrum
11:20-12:10Sebastian Baader
(Universität Bern)
An Involution on Positive BraidsGwatt Zentrum
12:10-15:00LunchGwatt Zentrum
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