- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Roland van der Veen – University of Amsterdam – r.i.vanderveen@uva.nl – http://staff.science.uva.nl/~riveen/
- Organizer
- Stavros Garoufalidis
We recall the Schur Weyl duality from representation theory and show how this can be applied to express the colored Jones polynomial of torus knots in an elegant way. We'll then discuss some applications and further extensions of this method.