Volume Conjecture Conference
Program -- PRELIMINARY

Abstracts

Mon., 13 Mar. Time Speaker Title

11:30 am Lunch Sandwiches in Math Lounge

2:00 pm S. Garoufalidis Introduction to the Volume Conjecture

3:30 pm Dylan Thurston

5:00 pm Sergei Gukov The Generalized Volume Conjecture and Beyond I
Tues., 14 Mar. Time Speaker Title

10:00 am Thang Le

11:30 am Baseilhac Geometric quantization and the quakebend space

2:30 pm Garoufalidis

3:30 pm Jun Murakami On the volume conjecture for the colored Jones invariant

5:00 pm Gukov The Generalized Volume Conjecture and Beyond II
Wed., 15 Mar. Time Speaker Title

10:00 am Thang Le

11:30 am Benedetti Quantum hyperbolic geometry I

2:30 pm Zheng Hao A viewpoint on the volume conjecture for satellite knots

3:30 pm Jun Murakami On the volume conjecture for the colored Alexander invariant

5:00 pm Marc Culler A-polynomial and FFT

6:00 pm Open Discussion and Problems
Thur., 16 Mar. Time Speaker Title

10:00 am Kashaev On quantum Teichmuller space of surfaces with boundary I

11:30 am Benedetti Quantum hyperbolic geometry II

2:30 pm Masbaum Perturbative expansion of mapping class group representations in TQFT

3:30 pm Yokota On the limit of Kashaev's invariant I

5:00 pm Zickert
A dilogarithmic formula for the Cheeger-Chern-Simons class
Fri., 17 Mar. Time Speaker Title

10:00 am Kashaev On quantum Teichmuller space of surfaces with boundary II

11:30 am Baseilhac Quantum hyperbolization of fibered manifolds

2:30 pm Xiabo Liu

3:30 pm Yokota On the limit of Kashaev's invariant II

5:00 pm Weiping Li An L2-invariant for knots and the volume conjecture
Sat., 18 Mar. Time Speaker Title

10:00 am Masbaum The cyclotomic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial for twist knots

11:30 am Xiao-Song Lin

2:30 pm Costantino On a shadow approach to the Volume Conjecture

3:30 pm Silver
Twisted Links and Mahler Measure

5:00 pm Futer Angled triangulations and volume estimates