University of Liverpool
The singularities seminar.  Mon. Dec. 8, 2008.


Title: Gauss diagram formulas for Vassiliev invariants.

Abstract:
Gauss diagrams provide an alternative way to represent knots 
and links. Any Vassiliev knot invariant can be expressed by 
a Gauss diagram formula which counts some "subdiagrams" of 
the Gauss diagram. I will describe such formulas for Vassiliev 
invariants coming from the HOMFLYPT polynomial. This is a 
joint work with Michael Polyak.