Theory of Knots & Links: Friday, July 17, 2015 14:00--14:40 Leonid Plachta (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland) Equivariant complexes associated with some combinatorial objects 14:50--15:30 Moshe Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) The probability of choosing the unknot among 2-bridge knots using random Chebyshev billiard table diagrams 15:30--16:00 Coffee, tea, and cake break 16:00--16:40 Celeste Damiani (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France) On the Alexander polynomial of a tangle 16:50--17:30 Boštjan Gabrovšek (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia) The link group of Seifert manifolds
Theory of Knots & Links: Saturday, July 18, 2015 14:00--14:40 Rafał Komendarczyk (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA) The-invariant separates homotopy string links 14:50--15:30 Paolo Bellingeri (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France) Homotopy classification of ribbon tubes 15:30--16:00 Coffee, tea, and cake break 16:00--16:40 Raphael Zentner (Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany) A class of SU(2)-simple knots 16:50--17:30 Marithania Silvero Casanova (Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain) Positivity of Conway polynomials of strongly quasipositive links
Theory of Knots & Links: Sunday, July 19, 2015 16:00--16:40 Michał Jabłonowski (University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland) A view of knotted surfaces by a number and a position of its critical points 16:50--17:30 Piotr Suwara (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland) Generating sets of oriented directed Reidemeister moves 17:30--18:00 Coffee, tea, and cake break 18:00--18:40 Maciej Niebrzydowski (University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland) On ternary operations that are useful in knot theory 18:50--19:30 Piotr Sułkowski (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland) BPS invariants for knots and extremal A-polynomials
Theory of Knots & Links: Monday, July 20, 2015 14:00--14:40 Khaled Mohammed Qazaqzeh (Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait) The Kauffman polynomial of periodic links 14:50--15:30 Wojciech Politarczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) Equivariant Khovanov homology of periodic links 15:30--16:00 Coffee, tea, and cake break 16:00--16:40 Krzysztof Putyra (ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies, Zurich, Switzerland) Annularization of Chen-Khovanov homology. Part 1 16:50--17:30 Krzysztof Putyra (ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies, Zurich, Switzerland) Annularization of Chen-Khovanov homology. Part 2