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Knots in Washington XXX; Categorification, Quantum knots and Quantum computing
May 19-21, 2010
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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Blackboard biracks and their link invariants
by
Sam Nelson
Claremont McKenna College

A blackboard birack is a set X with a solution B to the set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equation with invertibility properties making it suited for defining labeling invariants of blackboard-framed knots and links. We will see some examples of finite blackboard biracks and some of the knot and link invariants they define.

Date received: February 27, 2010

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