Quantum Algebra and Topology Seminar at UC Santa Barbara
Organizers: Aaron Bagheri and Melody Molander
The UCSB Quantum Algebra and Topology Seminar will usually meet on Tuesdays at 2 pm Pacific Time.
For Spring 2022, this seminar will be joint with the Graduate Quantum Topology & Algebra Seminar
Talks with speakers from outside of UCSB will be given virtually. If you are interested in attending virtually, please email me and I will send you the Zoom link.
Spring 2022 Schedule:
- 04/12: Patrick Vecera (UCSB), A Mathematical Guide to Classical and Quantum Gauge Theories
- 04/19: Kevin Walker (Microsoft Station Q), Higher-dimensional Temperley-Lieb, categorified idempotent completion, and incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds
- 04/26: Patrick Vecera (UCSB), From Chern-Simons to Quantum Topology
- 05/03: Joseph Melby (Michigan State), The Turaev-Viro Invariants and their Asymptotics
- 05/10: Benedict Lee (UCSB), Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra and it’s Quantum Trace Map
- 05/31: Anup Poudel (Iowa), From Sikora's Webs to CKM Relations
Winter 2022 Schedule:
- 02/15: Eric Rowell (Texas A&M), Charge Conserving Yang-Baxter Operators
- 03/08: Colleen Delaney (Indiana University Bloomington), Zesting and Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants
Fall 2021 Schedule:
- 11/17: Jieru Zhu (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), The \(SL_2\) Tilting Category in Mixed Characteristic
- 12/01: Jin-Cheng Guu (Stony Brook University), (Higher) Category-valued Manifold Invariants