Special Sessions on Knot Theory and Quantum Topology
Organizer: Xiao-Song Lin
Special Sessions on Knot Theory and
Quantum Topology I.
August 12, 2002, 13:30--17:10pm.
- 13:30--14:00, Jin, Gyo Taek
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
)
Superbridge index of knots
- 14:05--14:35, Kania-Bartoszynska, Joanna
(Boise State University
)
Knots, characters and integration
- 14:40--15:10, Kerler, Thomas
(The Ohio State Univeristy
)
Cyclotomic Integer Expansions of TQFT's
- 15:10--15:30, Tea and Coffee.
- 15:30--16:00, Ko, Ki Hyoung
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
)
Braid group and cryptography
- 16:05--16:35, Li, Weiping
(Oklahoma State University
)
Casson invariant is a homotopy invariant
- 16:40--17:10, Harvey, Shelly
(Rice University
)
Higher-Order 3-manifold Invariants with Applications to the Thurston Norm and Symplectic 4-manifolds
Special Sessions on Knot Theory and
Quantum Topology II.
August 13, 2002, 13:30--17:10pm.
- 13:30--14:00, Kalman, Tamas
(University of California at Berkeley
)
Fibrations with Legendrian Fibers
- 14:05--14:35, Fiedler, Thomas
(Universite Paul Sabatier, FRANCE
)
Global Knot Theory
- 14:40--15:10, Yang, Su-win
(Dept of Math, National Taiwan University
)
Zero-anomaly of perturbative Chern-Simons theory for knot invariant
- 15:10--15:30, Tea and Coffee.
- 15:30--16:00, Hoste, Jim
(Pitzer College
)
A Formula for the A-polynomial of Twist Knots
- 16:05--16:35, Zhong, Jianyuan K.
(Louisiana Tech University
)
On the Kauffman Skein Modules
- 16:40--17:10, Sawon, Justin
(New College, Oxford University
)
Rozansky-Witten theory
Special Sessions on Knot Theory and
Quantum Topology III.
August 15, 2002, 13:30--17:10pm.
- 13:30--14:00, Gelca, Razvan
(Texas Tech University
)
On the quantization of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the torus
- 14:05--14:35, Murakami, Jun
(Waseda University
)
On the relation of the volume of the tetrahedron and the quantum 6j-symbol
- 14:40--15:10, Yan, Min
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
)
Set-theoretical Yang-Baxter equation and the corresponding knot invariant
- 15:10--15:30, Tea and Coffee.
- 15:30--16:00, Mostovoy, Jacob
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (U.N.A.M.)
)
On groups of knots
- 16:05--16:35, Millett, Kenneth C.
(University of California, Santa Barbara
)
Polygonal Knot Space
- 16:40--17:10, Shin, Satoh
(Kyoto University
)
Triple point numbers of surface-knots
- 17:15--17:45, Lin, Xiao-Song
(UC Riverside
)
Knot adjacency, genus and essential tori
Special Sessions on Knot Theory and
Quantum Topology IV.
August 16, 2002, 9:00am--12:05pm.
- 9:00--9:30, Frohman, Charles
(The University of Iowa
)
Invariants of 3-manifolds away from roots of unity
- 9:35--10:05, Saito, Masahico
(University of South Florida
)
Generalizations of quandle cocycle invariants
- 10:10--10:40, Blanchet, Christian
(University of Bretagne-Sud
)
Modular categories and spin structures
- 10:40--11:00, Tea and Coffee.
- 11:00--11:30, Taniyama, Kouki
(Waseda University
)
A large complete graph in a space contains a link with large link invariant
- 11:35--12:05, Morimoto, Kanji
(Konan University
)
On Hoidn's inequality
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