2026 Conference Schedule

Monday, May 4, 2026

Time	Scheduled Activity
Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
9:15–10:15	Christine Ruey Shan Lee Texas State University	Interesting problems about the Jones polynomial
10:15–10:45	Break and snacks
10:45–11:15	Max Throm Michigan State University	\(\mathfrak{sl}(3)\) homology for strongly invertible links
11:25–12:25	Eric Samperton Purdue University	Topology through the lens of computer science
12:25–1:30	Lunch at USU Moab
1:30–2:30	Alexandra Kjuchukova University of Notre Dame	Lecture
2:30–3:00	Break
3:00–3:30	Sean Eli Georgia Tech	Distinguishing exotic \(\mathbb{R}^4\)s with Heegaard Floer homology
3:40–4:10	Louisa Liles The Ohio State University	Thompson’s Groups and Link Homology
4:20–4:50	Thomas Carlson Montana State University	The Skein Category TFT
5:00–5:30	Career panel

Time	Scheduled Activity
Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
9:00–10:00	Christine Ruey Shan Lee Texas State University	A whittled complex for the Khovanov homology of torus braids
10:00–10:20	Break and snacks
10:20–11:20	Eric Samperton Purdue University	Topology through the lens of computer science
11:20–11:40	Break and snacks
11:40–12:40	Alexandra Kjuchukova University of Notre Dame	From Seifert Forms to Branched Covers of \(B^4\)
12:40	Lunch at USU Moab then afternoon hike

Time	Scheduled Activity
Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
9:00–9:30	Sung Kim University of Southern California	Non-semisimple Topological Quantum Computation
9:40–10:10	Trevor Oliveira-Smith University of California, Davis	Extensions of Singular Fibrations and the Homology Cobordism Group
10:20–10:50	Rithwik Susheel Vidyarthi Michigan State University	Odd Khovanov homology and \(2\)-knots
11:00–11:30	Melody Molander The Ohio State University	A Well-Defined Jellyfish Algorithm for Affine \(E\) Planar Algebras
11:30	End of conference