Quantum Topology Seminar - Fall 2020

Usually meets Thursday at 12:00 pm in Zoom.
DateSpeakerTitle
August 6
(3:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC
Introduction to the Drinfeld Double Construction
August 13
(3:00 pm; Zoom)
Scott Carter
University of South Alabama and Osaka University
Amusing Permutation representations of group extensions.
August 20
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Noboru Ito
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan
Unknotting operations, crosscap numbers, and volume bounds
August 26
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
August 27
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Noboro ito
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan
Unknotting operations, crosscap numbers, and volume bounds
September 3
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Kanako Oshiro
Sophia University
Goeritz invariants and Dehn colorings for spatial Euler graphs
September 10
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Matthew Harper
The Ohio State University
A Generalization of the Alexander Polynomial from Higher Rank Quantum Groups
September 17
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Dr. Yuting Hu
Southern University of Science and Technology
Magnetic-Electric duality in 2D topological phases
September 24
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Marius Buliga
Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy ,Bucuresti, Romania
Zipper logic Revisited
October 1
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC, NSU
Knots, Diagrams, Categories and Computation
October 8
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC and NSU
Trivalent Graphs and Virtual Links
October 15
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC and NSU
Defining Integral Khovanov Homology for Virtual Links
October 22
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC, NSU
Defining Integral Khovanov Homology for Virtual Links
October 29
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC and NSU
Khovanov Homology for Virtual Knots and Links
November 5
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC and NSU
Khovanov Homology for Virtual Knots and Links
November 12
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Noboru Ito
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan
On a conjecture by Goussarov-Polyak-Viro for virtual knots and Gauss diagram formulas
November 19
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Noboro Ito
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan
Finite type invariants filtered by forbidden moves for classical and virtual knots
November 26
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Noboro Ito
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan
A study of finite type invariants of higher-orders of classical and virtual knots
December 3
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Noboru Ito
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Japan.
A study of finite type invariants of higher-orders of classical and virtual knots
December 10
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Louis H Kauffman
UIC
The Affine Index Polynomial and the Sawollek Polynomial
December 17
(4:00 pm; Zoom)
Scott Carter
Univ of South Alabama
Twisted Bands
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