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The next big thing in quantum topology?
The place to be in May for a quantum topologist is Vietnam. After some wonderful-sounding mini-courses in Hanoi, the party with move to Nha Trang (dream place to visit) for a quantum topology conferen… more →
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The next big thing in quantum topology?
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wrote 1 month ago: The place to be in May for a quantum topologist is Vietnam. After some wonderful-sounding mini-cours … more →
New connection between geometric and quantum realms
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wrote 1 month ago: A paper by Thomas Fiedler has just appeared on arXiv, describing a new link between geometric and qu … more →
Colin Day, in memoriam
wrote 11 months ago: On 16 February 2012, Colin Day passed away after a year long bout with stomach cancer. In his memory … more →
Rethinking the basics
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wrote 1 year ago: Some nights, one gazes up at the stars, and thinks about philosophy. Who are we? What is the meaning … more →
Beyond the trivial connection
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wrote 1 year ago: One of the foundational papers in Quantum Topology, and one of the main reasons that the subject is … more →
Who cares about the Volume Conjecture?
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wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday, I attended a very interesting informal talk by Roland van der Veen in which, among other … more →
Hopf algebra structure on 3-manifolds!?
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wrote 1 year ago: The main question in quantum topology has always been a curious one- “What do quantum invarian … more →
Newsflash: Witten's new preprint
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wrote 2 years ago: A couple of days ago, Edward Witten uploaded a preprint titled Fivebranes and Knots. Based on Witten … more →
Conference on Higher Gauge Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Topological Field Theory
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wrote 2 years ago: In February there is going to be a workshop and school dedicated to exploring the interactions of Qu … more →
A problem with LMO?
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wrote 2 years ago: Renaud Gauthier from KSU posted this preprint on ArXiv a few days ago, in which he claims to have fo … more →
What is the right context for the Alexander polynomial?
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wrote 2 years ago: I’m now a postdoc at the University of Toronto, and I have a new baby daughter (named Chana or … more →
Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology, Part II
wrote 2 years ago: In my previous post about combinatorial Heegaard floer homology, I described the basic structure for … more →
Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been trying for a number of years to learn about Heegaard floer homology, and I think tha … more →
Combinatorics of Jacobi diagrams
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wrote 2 years ago: A Jacobi diagram is surely the most tantalizing object in all of quantum topology. Its definition is … more →
The Alexander Polynomial as a Quantum Invariant: Part 3
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wrote 3 years ago: My original intention for this post was to summarize Chapter 2.3 and Appendix C of Quantum Invariant … more →
Knot polynomial identities and quantum group coincidences (February)
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wrote 3 years ago: Scott Morrison, Emily Peters and I have just uploaded to the arxiv our paper Knot polynomial identit … more →
The Alexander Polynomial as a Quantum Invariant: Part 2
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wrote 3 years ago: In this second installment of the series, I’m going to give you one interpretation of what we … more →
The Alexander Polynomial as a Quantum Invariant: Part 1
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wrote 3 years ago: In this series of posts, I would like to lay open my confusion regarding how the Alexander polynomia … more →
How to almost prove the 4-color theorem
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wrote 3 years ago: Vaughan Jones often quips at the beginning of talks on Planar Algebras (see these lectures, for exam … more →
