Abstracts

You are cordially invited to attend and give a talk at our Knots in Washington XVI conference. This regional conference is held every semester, in various locations in the Washington area (see http://home.gwu.edu/~przytyck/knots/index.html). The conference will take place at University of Maryland, College Park. We plan several survey talks - 50-60 minutes long, and 20-30 minute long research talks. On Monday, May 5, the UMD Geometry-Topology Seminar will be part of the conference http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/geometry/ You are cordially invited to participate in this and future meetings.

Marta M. Asaeda Topics from subfactor theory and TQFT
Richard Brown Automorphisms of the Fricke characters of free groups
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski Rational moves on links
Bill Goldman Flat Lorentz 3-manifolds: an overview
Brenda Johnson Links in spatial embeddings of graphs
Paul Kainen Quantum algebra and the Four Color Theorem
Slava Krushkal 4-dimensional surgery: the A, B-slice problem
Eun Soo Lee Khovanov Invariant
John J. Millson Representations of braid groups of Lie type
Adrian Ocneanu Quantum subgroups, canonical basis, and boundary topological invariants
Teresa Przytycka "Topology" of protein folds
Jozef H. Przytycki Kauffman-Harary Conjecture holds for Montesinos knots
Jonathan Rosenberg Equivariant Euler Operators and Characteristics
Richard Schwartz modular circle quotients and PL limit sets
Adam S. Sikora Relations between the Sl(2, C)-representations of knot groups and the Jones polynomial of a knot.
Piotr Stachura C*-algebras and (locally) Compact Quantum Groups - an overview
George Stantchev Dynamics of the modular group acting on GL(2, R)-characters of a once-punctured torus.