List of Speakers and Guests

• Ian Agol (UI Chicago)
  "Small 3-manifolds of large genus"
• Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska (Boise State University):
  "Quantum invariants away from roots of unity"
• Scott Carter (University of South Alabama):
  "Invariants of Knots and Knotted Surfaces"
• Jae Choon Cha (Indiana U/KAIST (South Korea)):
  "The structure of the rational knot concordance group"
• Jae-Wook Chung (University of California, Riverside):
  "On the bridge number of knot diagrams with minimal crossings"
• Tim Cochran (Rice University):
  "Virtual Betti Numbers of 3-Manifolds"
• Charles Frohman (University of Iowa):
  "Normal Surfaces and Quantum Invariants"
• John Harris (LSU):
  "Linear Independence in the Kauffman bracket skein module of the quaternionic manifold"
• Bus Jaco (Oklahoma State University):
  "Edge slopes for knots and links"
• Louis Kauffman (UI Chicago):
  
  "Idempotents in the Temperley Lieb Algebra, Meanders and Their Generalizations"
• Connie Leidy (Rice University):
  "Generalized Blanchfield Linking Forms for Knots and 3-Manifolds"
• Tao Li (Oklahoma State University):
  "An algorithm to recognize Seifert fiber spaces"
• Xiao-Song Lin (University of California, Riverside):
  "Zeros of the Jones Polynomial"
• Gregor Masbaum (Université Paris 7):
  "On the colored Jones polynomial of twist knots."
• Mike McLendon (Washington College, MD):
  "Skein algebras modulo commutators"
• Sam Nelson (Whittier College):
  "Virtual Crossing Realization"
• Jozef Przytycki (George Washington University):
  "Variety of groups of knots"
• Yongwu Rong (George Washington University):
  "Links with the same quantum invariants"
• Dan Silver (U of South Alabama):
  "Epimorphisms of Knot Groups"
• Morwen Thistlethwaite (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Arkady Vaintrob (University of Oregon, Eugene):
  "Factorization of the multivariable Conway invariant via the Kontsevich integral"
• William Vautaw (Southeastern Louisiana University):
  "Automorphisms of the Torelli Group in genus > 2"
• Susan Williams (U of South Alabama):
  "Lifting representations of knot group commutator subgroups"
• Jianyuan Zhong (Louisiana Tech University):
  "The Yang-Mills Measure in the Kauffman Skein Module"