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KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXI: Skein modules, Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology
December 9-11, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

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What is categorification?
by
Mikhail Khovanov
Columbia University

Categorification turns numbers into vector spaces and vector spaces into categories. This talk will be a broad overview of categorification, together with examples of the latter and applications.

Date received: December 4, 2005

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