Denver, Colorado, January 2020
Joint Mathematics Meeting
Special Session on
Self-Distributive Structures, Knot Theory,
and the Yang-Baxter Equation
 |
 |
 |
The program is split into two sessions. The first session will take place on January 18, 2020 at the the venue of the Joint Mathematics Meeting (Denver Convention Center). The second session will take place on January 19, 2020 at the University of Denver in the form of a satellite event of the JMM.
See below for directions from downtown Denver to the University of Denver lecture room.
Program
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Room 404, Meeting Room Level, Colorado Convention Center
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 1:00-1:20pm | The Structure of Hom Quandles Alissa S Crans*, Marco Bonatto and Glen Whitney |
| 1:30-1:50pm | Quandles and Biquandles in Virtual Knot Theory Louis H Kauffman |
| 2:00-2:20pm | Constructing almost classical virtual links from virtual links Naoko Kamada |
| 2:30-2:50pm | A geometric field theory for three-manifolds Charles Frohman* and Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska |
| 3:00-3:20pm | Motions and their actions on the fundamental groups and quandles of H-trivial links Seiichi Kamada |
| 3:30-3:50pm | Diagrammatic categorification of the polynomial ring $\mathbb{Z}[x]$ Radmila Sazdanovic* and Mikhail Khovanov |
| 4:10-4:30pm | Arbitrarily large torsion in Khovanov homology Sujoy Mukherjee* and Dirk Schuetz |
| 4:40-5:00pm | Two-(co)cycle invariants of links from column unital Yang-Baxter operators Jozef H. Przytycki |
| 5:10-5:30pm | Skein for Yang-Baxter homology Mohamed Elhamdadi, Masahico Saito* and Emanuele Zappala |
| 5:40-6:00pm | The classification of connected quandles of size p^3 Marco Bonatto |
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Knudson Hall 309, University of Denver
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| 8:00-8:20am | An introduction to the normalized set-theoretic Yang-Baxter homology theory Seung Yeop Yang |
| 8:30-8:50am |
Normalized Yang-Baxter homology and biquandle homotopy invariants of links
Xiao Wang* and Seung Yeop Yang |
| 9:00-9:20am | Heap cohomology and ternary self-distributive cohomology M. Elhamdadi, M. Saito and Emanuele Zappala* |
| 9:30-9:50am |
Solvable and nilpotent quandles
Marco Bonatto and David Stanovsky* |
| 10:00-10:30am | Coffee break in Knudson 200 |
| 10:30-10:50am | 2-Cocycle Invariant and Oriented Singular Knots Indu Rasika Churchill |
| 11:00-11:20am |
Classifying Stratified Spaces: 2-Foams and 2-Stratifolds
John H Bergschneider |
| 11:30-11:50am | Yang-Baxter quasigroups Michael Kinyon |
| 12:00-12:20pm | Idempotent latin solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation and twisted Ward quasigroups David Stanovsky and Petr Vojtechovsky* |
| 12:30-12:50pm | TBD |
Organizers
Mohamed Elhamdadi, David Stanovsky and Petr VojtechovskyDirections from downtown Denver to the University of Denver lecture room
Address: Knudson Hall 309, 2390 S York St, Denver, Colorado, 80208
Getting there by public transportation from downtown Denver:
- Take train E or H from downtown Denver to University of Denver station (16 minutes).
- Either walk through campus for 20 minutes to Knudson Hall or take the 7:40am bus #24 from University of Denver Station Gate D to S University Blvd and E Wesley Ave stop (arrive 7:44am) and then walk west on E Wesley Ave for 1 minute.
Links and comments:
- photo of Knudson Hall
- campus map of the University of Denver (Knudson Hall is building #12 in sector 7G, train station is in top left corner)
- RTD: Denver public transporation system
- The lecture room is equipped with computer projector and whiteboard.
last update: 1/18/2020