PORT CITY TOPOLOGY
CONFERENCE

February 26-27, 2005
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL

Conference Shedule and Abstracts

Feb 26th Saturday ILB 370
TIME
NAME
TITLE
9-9.30 am
BREAKFAST

9.30-10.20 am
Wilbur Whitten
Silver's partial order on knots
10.30-11.20 am
Oliver Dasbach The world according to the Fox Matrix
11.30-1 pm
LUNCH

1-1.50 pm
Ilya Kofman Mahler measure of Jones polynomials under twisting
2-2.50 pm
Jozef Przytycki Kei, Burnside groups and skein module deformation of rational moves
3-3.30 pm
COFFEE

3.30-4.30 pm 
Louis Kauffman
Invariants of Virtual Knots and Virtual Strings
4.30-5.30 pm
Shin Satoh  A note on the shadow cocycle invariant of a knot with a base point
6 pm
PARTY

Feb 27th Sunday ILB 370
TIME NAME TITLE
9-9.30 am BREAKFAST
9.30-10.20 am Louis Kauffman Spin Networks and Anyonic Topological Quantum Computing
10.30-11.20 am Masahico Saito Set-Theoretic Yang-Baxter Solutions via Fox Calculus
11.30-1 pm LUNCH
1-1.50 pm Bill Schellhorn Virtual Strings for Closed Curves with Multiple Components
2-2.50 pm Kheira Ameur Polynomial quandle cocycles and knot applications
3-3.50 pm
Mohamed Elhamdadi Quandle modules and Cocycle knot invariants
4 pm
END OF CONFERENCE