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2023/08/08

14:00-15:00   Room #123 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto)
Cars, Interchanges, Traffic Counters, and some Pretty Darned Good Knot Invariants (English)
[ Abstract ]
Reporting on joint work with Roland van der Veen, I'll tell you some stories about ρ_1, an easy to define, strong, fast to compute, homomorphic, and well-connected knot invariant. ρ_1 was first studied by Rozansky and Overbay, it is dominated by the coloured Jones polynomial (but it isn't lesser!), it has far-reaching generalizations, and I wish I understood it.
[ Reference URL ]
http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Talks/Tokyo-230808/