{"id":22,"date":"2015-07-06T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:07:11","slug":"presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-updated collections of the slides from my research talks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2025\/10\/VassarColloquium.pdf\">Some of my favorite knot invariants<\/a>. Vassar College Colloquium. October 8, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2025\/04\/CUNYTopologySeminar.pdf\">Arc index and Turaev genus<\/a>. CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar. April 29, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2025\/03\/DUSO2025.pdf\">Introduction to Knot Theory<\/a>. DUSO Mathematics League. March 12, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2025\/02\/InternationCongressLowrance.pdf\">Arc index and Turaev genus<\/a>. The First International Online Knot Theory Congress. February 2, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2024\/12\/LowranceKnots_in_Washington_50.pdf\">Invariants of 2-bridge knots<\/a>. Knots in Washington 50, George Washington University. December 8, 2024.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2024\/04\/LowranceAMSEasternHoward.pdf\">The expected value of invariants of rational knots<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, Howard University, April 7, 2024.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2023\/10\/AMSMobile-Lowrance.pdf\">Statistics of invariants of 2-bridge knots<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of South Alabama. October 16, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2023\/05\/LowranceFresnoAMS.pdf\">The genus distribution of 2-bridge knots<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, California State University, Fresno. May 6, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2023\/03\/HRUMC_2023.pdf\">An introduction to Khovanov homology<\/a>. Hudson River Mathematics Conference, Mt. Holyoke College. April 1, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2023\/03\/LowranceGeorgiaTech.pdf\">The genus distribution of 2-bridge knots<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, Georgia Tech. March 18-19, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2021\/12\/KIW49.5.pdf\">Near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links<\/a>. Knots in Washington 49.5. December 3, 2021.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2019\/09\/CUNYTuraevGenusOne.pdf\">The Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links<\/a>. CUNY Topology seminar. September 24, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2019\/07\/MRI_Talk-compressed.pdf\">Unknotting and region crossing change<\/a>. UnKnot IV, University of Washington, Bothell. July 19-21, 2019. Given by my students S. Goodhill, V. Munoz Gonzales, J. Rattray, and A. Zeh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2019\/07\/LowranceUnknotDetection.pdf\">Unknot detection and the Jones polynomial<\/a>. UnKnot IV, University of Washington, Bothell. July 19-21, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2019\/03\/LowranceHawaiiAMS.pdf\">Invariants of Turaev genus one links<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa. March 22-24, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2019\/01\/JointMeetings2019Lowrance.pdf\">Gordian distance and Khovanov homology spectral sequences<\/a>. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD. January 18, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2018\/05\/KnotsInWashington2018.pdf\">Are almost alternating links semi-adequate?<\/a>\u00a0Knots in Washington XLVI, George Washington University. May 4-6, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/Pullman_Sectional.pdf\">The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, Washington State University. April 22-23, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/CharlestonSectional.pdf\">Invariants of Turaev genus one links<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, College of Charleston. March 10-12, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/JointMeetings2017.pdf\">Computing the Turaev genus of a link<\/a>. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. January 4-7, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/KnotsInWashington.pdf\">The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link and Turaev genus one link<\/a>. Knots in Washington, George Washington University. December 9-11, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/NCSUSectional.pdf\">Chromatic homology, Khovanov homology, and torsion<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, North Carolina State University.\u00a0 November 12-13, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/KITT.pdf\">The Jones polynomial of almost alternating and Turaev genus one links<\/a>. Knots in the Triangle, North Carolina State University. April 29 &#8211; May 1, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/AlmostAlternating.pdf\">Almost alternating links and the Jones polynomial<\/a>. Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, St. Michael&#8217;s College. April 2, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/CharlieConf.pdf\">Invariants of Turaev genus one knots<\/a>. Advances in Low-Dimensional and Quantum Topology, University of Iowa. March 11-13, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/Turaev1.pdf\">Knots of Turaev genus one<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Georgia. March 5-6, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/TuraevSig.pdf\">Signature and alternating tangle decompositions<\/a>. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, Washington. January 6-9, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/TuraevSigKIW.pdf\">Signatures and Turaev genera of knots<\/a>. Knots in Washington, George Washington University. December 4-6, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/KhChrTor.pdf\">Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion<\/a>. Columbia University Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar. October 16, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/AltDecomp-1.pdf\">Alternating tangle decompositions<\/a>. Williams College Mathematics Colloquium. September 18, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/ChromaticKhovanov.pdf\">Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. April 18-19, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/OddTorsion.pdf\">Khovanov homology, chromatic homology, and torsion<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, Michigan State University. March 14-15, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/OddTorsion1.pdf\">Odd torsion in the Khovanov homology of semi-adequate links<\/a>. Knots in Washington, George Washington University. March 9-11, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/AltDecomp.pdf\">Turaev genus and alternating decompositions<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, Georgetown University. March 7-8, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/AlternatingDistanceTalk.pdf\">Alternating distances of knots<\/a>. Knots in Dallas, University of Texas at Dallas. January 6-9, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/AlternatingDistanceTalk1.pdf\">Alternating distances of knots and links<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. November 8-9, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The Turaev surface, ribbon graphs, and Khovanov homology. Geometry and Topology Seminar, North Carolina State University. November 6, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/AlternatingDistanceTalk2.pdf\">Alternating distances of knots and links<\/a>. 29th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications, College of Staten Island, City University of New York. July 23-26, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/baltimorejointmeetings.pdf\">Measuring a knot&#8217;s distance from alternating<\/a>. AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland. January 15-18, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/adamlowrance\/files\/2015\/07\/riverside.pdf\">Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs<\/a>. AMS Sectional Meeting, University of California, Riverside. November 2-3, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs. AMS Sectional Meeting, Washington University, St. Louis. October 18-20, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Khovanov homology of oriented ribbon graphs. AMS Sectional Meeting, Temple University. October 12-13, 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A semi-updated collections of the slides from my research talks. Some of my favorite knot invariants. Vassar College Colloquium. October 8, 2025. Arc index and Turaev genus. CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar. April 29, 2025. Introduction to Knot Theory. DUSO Mathematics League. March 12, 2025. Arc index and Turaev genus. 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