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Tuesday Seminar on Topology
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| Date, time & place | Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.) |
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| Organizer(s) | HABIRO Kazuo, KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya |
2026/01/21
17:30-18:30 Room #hybrid/118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Stavros Garoufalidis (Southern University of Science and Technology)
What are Lie superalgebras good for? (ENGLISH)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Stavros Garoufalidis (Southern University of Science and Technology)
What are Lie superalgebras good for? (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
I will try to answer, as honestly as I can, this question. Lie superalgebras are important in mathematical physics (supersymmetry), in representation theory, in categorification, in quantum topology, but also in classical topology. Namely, they may detect the genus of a smallest spanning surface of a knot. Come and listen about some theorems and experimental evidence, and decide for yourself if this is an accident, a conspiracy theory, or a manifestation of the truth!
[ Reference URL ]I will try to answer, as honestly as I can, this question. Lie superalgebras are important in mathematical physics (supersymmetry), in representation theory, in categorification, in quantum topology, but also in classical topology. Namely, they may detect the genus of a smallest spanning surface of a knot. Come and listen about some theorems and experimental evidence, and decide for yourself if this is an accident, a conspiracy theory, or a manifestation of the truth!
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
