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Knots in Washington XXVI Interconnections between Khovanov, Khovanov-Rozansky and Ozvath-Szabo homology, categorification of skein modules
April 18-20, 2008
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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How to categorify a quantum group
by
Mikhail Khovanov
Columbia University and IAS
Coauthors: Aaron Lauda

I'll explain a recent joint work with Aaron Lauda on categorification of one-half of the quantum universal enveloping algebra associated to a simply-laced Dynkin diagram. If time allows, Lauda's work on categorification of the entire quantum sl(2) will be reviewed as well.

Date received: March 27, 2008

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