G&T Pre-Talk: Khovanov homology and invariants of braid closures

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar Pre-talk
Time
Monday, February 3, 2020 - 12:45pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Gage Martin – Boston College – martaic@bc.edu
Organizer
Miriam Kuzbary

A discussion of Khovanov-Lee homology, how to extract some invariants of braid closures from the homology theory, and motivation for studying both the homology theory and the invariants.