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Knots in Washington XXII
May 5-7, 2006
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), przytyck@gwu.edu, Yongwu Rong (GWU), rong@gwu.edu, Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), shurik@gwu.edu

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A categorification of the Burau representation
by
Mikhail Khovanov
Columbia University

I'll review a toy example of categorification, that of the Burau representation of the braid group. The talk is based on an old joint paper with Paul Seidel.

Date received: April 28, 2006

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