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Knots in Washington XXIX; 30 years of quandles, 10 years of Khovanov homology
December 4-6, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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A categorification of quantum sl(2).
by
Aaron Lauda
Columbia University

Crane and Frenkel conjectured that that the quantum enveloping algebra of sl(2) could be categorified at generic q using its canonical basis. In my talk I will describe a realization of this conjecture using a diagrammatic calculus.

Date received: November 30, 2009

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