Title: Introduction to Categorified Braid Invariants
Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology
Speaker: Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2012
Time: 10:15am – 11:15am
Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Abstract: This talk provides background for the 1 p.m. topology seminar. We will discuss the construction of Khovanov-Seidel (and indicate how it is related both to the Burau representation and the U_q(sl_2) Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant) and define sutured annular Khovanov homology. We will probably conclude with a few words about Hochschild homology and it’s relation to these invariants.
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