Khovanov Winter Workshop

The Khovanov Winter Workshop was a graduate workshop held at the University of Texas, Austin, 11-14 January 2006. Joel Kamnitzer and Scott Morrison were the plenary speakers. Scott's Wiki has a list of talks and references. The actual talks given differ slightly from this list. Any questions may be directed to Carl Mautner or me.

Lecture Notes

Here are my lecture notes from the workshop:

• Parker Lowrey:
  The Jones Polynomial and Braided Tensor Categories.
• Deepak Khosla: Modular Tensor Categories.
• Alexander Kahle: The Chern-Simons TQFT.
• Sean Bowman and Jonathan Williams: Khovanov Homology.
• Scott Morrison: Khovanov Homology of Tangles.
• Scott Morrison: The s-Invariant and the Milnor Conjecture.
• Joel Kamnitzer: Motivation and introduction to Carl's talk.
• Carl Mautner: Categorification via Category O
• Max Maydanskiy: The Seidel-Smith construction.
• Joel Kamnitzer: Comments on Max's talk.
• Eric Katerman: KR Homology.

Scott sent me his notes:

• Deepak Khosla and Joel Kamnitzer:
  Modular Tensor Categories, and Rep(U_q g) at roots of unity.
• Carl Mautner and Joel Kamnitzer:
  Category O and Khovanov Homology.
• Max Maydanskiy and Joel Kamnitzer:
  The Seidel-Smith construction.

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