Mapping Class Groups and Categorification
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Dan Margalit, Vanderbilt University
Monday Apr 8, 2013 09:08 - 10:08
Mapping Class Groups and Surface Bundles, Part 1
Aaron Lauda, University of Southern California
Monday Apr 8, 2013 10:32 - 11:41
Getting knot invariants from representation theory via Howe duality
Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research
Monday Apr 8, 2013 15:02 - 16:06
Surface dynamics applied to embedding 3-manifolds in R^4
Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
Monday Apr 8, 2013 16:37 - 17:47
Detecting rational maps
Chris Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Tuesday Apr 9, 2013 09:32 - 10:33
Mapping Class Groups and Surface Bundles, Part 2
Sabin Cautis, University of British Columbia
Tuesday Apr 9, 2013 11:02 - 12:08
A construction of braid group actions
Gordana Matic, University of Georgia
Tuesday Apr 9, 2013 13:40 - 14:42
Introduction to contact topology II
Andrew Cotton-Clay, Harvard University
Tuesday Apr 9, 2013 15:01 - 16:04
Invariants from Holomorphic Curves in Mapping Tori
Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College
Tuesday Apr 9, 2013 16:28 - 17:37
Sutured Khovanov homology and the word problem in the braid group
Stephen Bigelow, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wednesday Apr 10, 2013 09:01 - 10:02
Diagrammatic knot invariants that ought to be categorified
Mustafa Korkmaz, Middle East Technical University
Wednesday Apr 10, 2013 10:29 - 11:36
Low dimensional linear representations of mapping class groups
Yin Tian, University of Southern California
Thursday Apr 11, 2013 09:06 - 10:15
A categorification of Uqsl(1|1) as an algebra
Benjamin Elias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday Apr 11, 2013 10:36 - 11:37
An introduction to Soergel bimodules and Rouquier complexes
Michael Brandenbursky, Universite de Montreal
Thursday Apr 11, 2013 13:32 - 14:37
Bi-invariant metrics on diffeomorphism groups
Nathan Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday Apr 11, 2013 15:00 - 15:58
L-spaces and left-orderability: an experimental survey
