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Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, I
Room 13, Wilson-Short Hall
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Legendrian/Transverse Knots and Knot Floer Homology.
  Jose Ceniceros*, Louisiana State University
  (1128-55-295)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Find the action of Kauffman bracket skein algebra on the skein module of the 3-twist knot complement.
  Hongwei Wang*, Texas Tech Univeristy
  Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University
  (1128-55-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Minimal Intersection Number of Flat Virtual Links.
  David Freund*, Dartmouth College
  (1128-57-11)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Equivalence of edge bicolored graphs on surfaces.
  Heather M. Russell*, University of Richmond
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University
  (1128-57-19)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Simplicial Homotopy Theory, Link Homology and Khovanov Homology.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1128-55-24)

Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, II
Room 13, Wilson-Short Hall
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometric realization of partial presimplicial sets and the almost extreme Khovanov homology.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (1128-57-299)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link.
  Adam Lowrance*, Vassar College
  (1128-57-119)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Jones slopes and coarse volume for near-alternating links.
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1128-57-141)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the virtual singular braid monoid.
  Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
  Sarah McGahan, California State University, Fresno
  (1128-57-186)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Parity in Knotoids.
  Neslihan G\"ug\"umc\"u*, National Technical University of Athens
  (1128-51-79)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Diagrammatic Moves on 3-Diagrams.
  Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
  Colin Adams, Williams College
  Martin Palmer, University of Bonn
  (1128-57-106)

Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, III
Room 13, Wilson-Short Hall
Organizers:
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
Allison Henrich, Seattle University
- 8:30 a.m.
  A table of prime 2-bouquet graphs with up to seven crossings.
  Natsumi Oyamaguchi*, Shumei University
  (1128-57-160)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Augmented Alexander matrices and generalizations of twisted Alexander invariants and quandle cocycle invariants.
  Kanako Oshiro*, Sophia University
  Atsushi Ishii, University of Tsukuba
  (1128-57-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Signatures of 4-manifolds via linking numbers of knots in dihedral covers of $S^3$.
  Patricia Cahn*, Smith College
  Alexandra Kjuchukova, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1128-57-209)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On unified Khovanov homology and its computations.
  Krzysztof K. Putyra, ETH Z\"urich, Switzerland
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1128-57-331)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Torsion in Khovanov link homology.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State University
  Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
  (1128-57-265)