Invited Conference talks |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| "Turaev surfaces and the determinant of a knot" |
Knots in Washington |
April 18-20, 2008 |
GWU, Washington, DC |
| "On a dimer model for the Alexander polynomial of a knot" |
3rd Annual Louisiana-Texas
Topology Retreat |
February 9-10, 2008 |
Rice University, Houston |
| "Remarks
on a dimer model for the Alexander polynomial of a knot" |
Workshop on Knots and Quantum
Computing |
December 18-20, 2007 |
UT Dallas, TX |
| "The Jones polynomial and graphs on surfaces" |
Knotting Mathematics and Art: Conference in Low Dimensional Topology and Mathematical Art |
November 1-4, 2007 |
University
of South Florida, Tampa, Florida |
| "The Jones polynomial and graphs on
surfaces" |
Cascade Topology Conference |
October 20-21, 2007 |
Boise
State University, Idaho |
| "Alternating sum formulae for the
determinant of a link." |
AMS Sectional Meeting, Oxford, Ohio |
March 16-17, 2007 |
Special
Session on Quantum Topology |
| "Torus knot complements: A natural series
for the natural logarithm" |
AMS Sectional Meeting, Durham, New Hampshire |
April 22-23, 2006 |
Special
Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds |
| "Patterns in the colored Jones polynomials" | AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX |
January 12-15, 2006 |
Special
Session on Quantum
Invariants of Knots and 3-Manfolds |
| "Somewhere between Mahler Measure and L2-torsion" | Mahler Measure in Mobile |
January 5-8, 2006 |
University of South
Alabama, Mobile, AL |
| "On Kauffman's spanning tree expansion of the Alexander polynomial" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Lubbock, TX, |
April 8-10, 2005 | Special Session on Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds |
| "The world according to the Fox Matrix" | Port
City Topology Conference |
February 26-27, 2005 |
University
of South Alabama, Mobile, AL |
| "On
Kauffman's spanning tree expansion of the Alexander polynomial" |
Knots
in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman |
February 11-13, 2005 |
George-Washington
University,
Washington DC |
| "Knot Polynomials vs. Hyperbolic Volume" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA |
November 6-7, 2004 |
Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds |
| "Hyperbolic Volume vs. Knot Polynomials" |
AMS Sectional Meeting, Albuquerque, NM |
October 16-17, 2004 |
Special
Session on "Braids and Knots" |
| "On the coefficients of the Jones polynomial" |
Knots in Washington, XVIII; Khovanov homology |
May 28--30, 2004 |
George-Washington
University, Washington DC |
| "A Volume-ish theorem for the Jones polynomial of alternating knots" | Conference "Borders in 3-dim Topology" | December 5-7, 2003 | Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
| "A volume-ish theorem for the Jones
Polynomial
of alternating knots" |
Georgia Topology Conference |
June 18-22, 2003 |
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia |
| "The coefficients of the Jones polynomial of alternating knots and the growth of the hyperbolic volume" | Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference 2003 | March 20-22, 2003 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas |
| "Remarks on the Geometry of the Jones Polynomial" | AMS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MA | January 15-18, 2003 | Special Session on Algebraic Topology Based on Knots |
| "On the Combinatorics of Legendrian knots" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Orlando, FL | November 9-10, 2002 | Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Low-Dimensional Manifolds |
| "Property P for some knots" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Portland, OR | June 22, 2002 | Special Session on Quantum Topology |
| "Some remarks on Property P" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI | March 1-3, 2002 | Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three |
| "On the "Volume" limit of the colored Jones polynomial" | AMS Meeting, San Diego, CA |
January 2002 | Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology |
| "Constraints on Vassiliev invariants and their complexity" | Special Session on Computational Topology |
||
| "Quantum Morphing and the Jones Polynomial" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Irvine, CA | November 10-11, 2001 | Special Session on Quantum Topology |
| "Remarks on Khovanov's knot homology" | AMS Sectional Meeting, Las Vegas, NV | April 21-22, 2001 | Special Session on Topology of Links |
| "Braid constraints on Vassiliev knot invariants" | AMS Meeting, New Orleans, LA |
January 2001 | Special Session |
| "Properties of generalizations of braid groups" | AMS Meeting, New Orleans, LA |
Special Session "Braid Groups and Configuration Spaces" | |
| "McMullen's and other inequalities for the Thurston norm of link complements" | KNOTS 2000, South Korea | July 31-August 5, 2000 | |
| "Inequalities for the Thurston norm of link complements" | Warwick | July 9-22, 2000 | Workshop on Geometry and Topology |
| "The word problem for singular braids" | Knots in Hellas 98 conference, Delphi, Greece | August 7-15, 1998 | |
| "Cubic Graphs with Legs" | Knot Theory Week, University of Bonn | July 14-18, 1997 | |
| Selected Colloquium talks |
|||
| "On the geometry of the Jones Polynomial" |
Colloquium |
April 30, 2004 |
University of Iowa, IA |
| "The problem with words in the singular braid monoid" | Colloquium | April 9, 1998 | New Mexico State University, Las Cruzes, NM. |
| "Faster, higher, stronger? - Vassiliev knot invariants" | Colloquium | March 27, 1998 | George Washington University |
Selected Seminar talks |
|||
| "On a dimer model for the Alexander polynomial of a knot" |
Low-Dimensional Algebraic
Topology Seminar |
Feb/Mar 2008 |
Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH |
| "Graphs on surfaces and the determinant of a knot" | 3- and 4- Manifold Seminar |
November 14, 2007 |
Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI |
| "On the Combinatorics of Legendrian Knots" | Differential Geometry Seminar |
October 20, 2006 |
UC Riverside, CA |
| "The colored Jones polynomial vs. the hyperbolic volume" | Topology Seminar |
February 27, 2006 |
Rice University, Houston, TX |
| "The volume-ish properties of
the colored Jones polynomial" |
Topology Seminar |
November 19, 2005 |
University of Buffalo, NY |
| "On the voluminous Jones Polynomial" |
Topology Seminar |
June 16, 2004 |
Columbia University, NY |
| "On the combinatorics of Legendrian knots" |
Topology Seminar |
April 29, 2004 |
University of Iowa, IA |
| "Knot polynomials, the unknot, and complexity issues" | Columbia Topology Seminar | September 28, 2001 | Columbia University, New York, NY |
| "A la recherche de la topologie perdue" | Caltech Topology Seminar | January 30, 2001 | Caltech, Pasadena, CA |
| "On new adjectives for braids: singular and virtual" | Columbia Topology Seminar | October 30, 1998 | Columbia University |
| "Modern Braids can have Singularities" | The Valley Geometry Seminar | October 9th., 1998 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| "A singular braid is a singular braid is a singular braid. - A grouptheoretical approach" | Topology Seminar | March 26, 1998 | George Washington University, Washington DC |
| "How strong are Vassiliev knot invariants? - A combinatorial approach" | Topology Seminar | March 24, 1998 | Rutgers University, New Brunswick |
| "As good as it gets? Vassiliev knot invariants" | Topology Seminar | March 5, 1998 | Rutgers University, Newark |
| "A trip through the combinatorics of Vassiliev Invariants I & II" | Topology Seminar | February 6. & 13., 1998 | Columbia University |