Speaker: Jozef Przytycki, GWU

http://home.gwu.edu/~przytyck/

Title: Playing with homotopy: Does Khovanov lead to bouquets of spheres in polynomial time?

Abstract: The motivation for my talk and related research comes from the confluence of two fascinating recent developments: Khovanov homology in knot theory
and homological algebra and pseudo-knots in RNA folding theory in computational biology.