Link homology and foams

Speaker:Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University)
Schedule:Friday, 10:00 am-11:00 am, 16 December 2022 (Beijing Time)
Venue:Zoom Meeting ID: 271 534 5558 Passcode: YMSC
Date:2022-12-16

Abstract:

Some of the better-known link homology theories are bigraded and categorify Reshetikhin-Turaev GL(N) link invariants. In the past few years foams have emerged as an explicit way to construct link homology theories. We will explain what foams are and how evaluation of foams leads to these explicit approaches to link homology.


Speaker:

Mikhail Khovanov is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University.


 


Video:http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_lecture?html=Link_homology_and_foams.html