Category O and the colored Jones polynomial

Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics
Event time: 
Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Joshua Sussan
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

We review the categorifications of tensor products of finite dimensional representations of quantum Sl(2)and the Jones polynomial due to J. Bernstein, I. Frenkel, M. Khovanov, and C. Stroppel and show how to extend it to a categorification of the colored Jones polynomial.

Special note: 
*note different time