Week 1 | |
Mon. June 20 | S. Chmutov, Introduction. The Kauffman bracket. |
Wed. June 22 | S. Chmutov, The Tutte and Bollobás-Riordan polynomials. Relation to links and the Kauffman bracket. |
Week 2 | |
Mon. June 27 | S. Chmutov, Matroids. Virtual links. |
Wed. June 29 | S. Chmutov, Khovanov type homology theory. Chromatic homology. |
Week 3 | |
Wed. July 6 | S. Chmutov, Vassiliev type invariants. |
Week 4 | |
Mon. July 11 | Michael Chmutov, Vanishing theorems for chromatic homology. |
Week 5 | |
Wed. July 20 | Thomas LaPille, HOMFLY and Tutte polynomials. |
Week 6 | |
Mon. July 25 | Shaun Van Ault, Extreme coefficients for the Jones polynomial. |
Week 7 | |
Mon. August 1 | Daniel File, Khovanov homology. |
Wed. August 3 | Philip Kilanowski, Virtual knots. Khovanov homology for virtual knots. |
Week 8 | |
Mon. August 8 | Elena Udovina, Reduced chromatic homology of graphs. |
Wed. August 10 | Gabor Revesz, Span of the Jones polynomial of a virtual link. |
Week 9 | |
Mon. August 15 | Michael Khoury, Polyak-Viro formulas for Vassiliev invariants. |
Wed. August 17 | Avi Silterra, James Sharpnack, William Mance, Parallel connection and matroids. |
Week 10 | |
Mon. August 22 | Timothy All, Kauffman bracket on non-orientable surfaces. |