Topology Seminar- Searching for Patterns in Skein Modules
Fri, 20 November, 2020
6:00pm
The next talk in the Greater Washington Topology Seminar is on Friday, November 20 from 1pm to 2pm EST and will be held virtually via Zoom.
1. October 2, 2020: Louis H. Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago and Novosibirsk State University)
2. October 9, 2020: Charles Frohman (University of Iowa)
3. October 16, 2020: Thang T. Q. Lê (Georgia Institute of Technology)
4. October 23, 2020: Pierrick Bousseau (ETH Zurich)
5. October 30, 2020: Micah Chrisman (Ohio State University)
6. November 6, 2020: Alex Chandler (University of Vienna)
7. November 13, 2020: Boštjan Garbovšek (University of Ljubljana)
8. November 20, 2020: Razvan Gelca (Texas Tech University)
9. December 4, 2020: Helen Wong (Claremont McKenna College)
Speaker: Razvan Gelca
Title: Searching for Patterns in Skein Modules
Abstract: Skein modules have been used for encoding the combinatorics of quantized Wilson lines in Chern-Simons theory. To find order in skein computations, input from representation theory, complex geometry, algebraic geometry, quantum field theory, combinatorics and other areas has been used. I will focus on input from quantum mechanical models and character varieties that I have used in my work, and I will discuss the case of handle bodies and knot complements. An attempt to facilitate skein computations will also be presented.
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