Date/Time
Date(s) - 18/01/2024
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location: HH 312

Speaker: Dror Bar-Natan 18 January. He is from the University of Toronto.

Title: Cars, Interchanges, Traffic Counters, and some Pretty Darned Good Knot Invariants

Abstract: Reporting on joint work with Roland van der Veen, I’ll tell you some stories about $\rho_1$, an easy to define, strong, fast to compute, homomorphic, and well-connected knot invariant. $\rho_1$ 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.