Talks
Aaron Lauda
Forthcoming Talks
- "Diagrammatic algebra", Manhattan College, February 9th, 2010.
- Homology Theories of Knots and Links, MSRI Berkeley, March 15th-19th, 2010.
- Categorification of topological invariants and applications, Stony Brook, June 21st-25th, 2010.
- XIXth Oporto Meeting, Portugal, 19-23 July 2010.
- "Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups '10", Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Japan, August 2 -- 6, 2010.
- Algebraic and Combinatorial Approaches to Representation Theory, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, August 12th-16th 2010.
- "Taipei Conference on Representation Theory" in Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-23, 2010.
- "Swiss Knots 2011", Lake of Thun, Switzerland, May 22-28, 2011
Here is a list of talks I have given.
- "Categorified Groups," Quantum Gravity Seminar, University of
California, Riverside, April 2003.
- "2-Groups and String Diagrams", Categories and Logic Seminar,
University of Cambridge, October 2003.
- "String Diagrams and 2-Groups", Topology Seminar , Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, December 2003.
- "Internalization", Topology Seminar , Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, December 2003.
- "Frobenius Algebras and the Walking Ambidextrous Adjunction",
Categories and Logic Seminar, University of Cambridge, March 2004.
- "
Categorified Frobenius Algebras",
Oporto Meetings on Geometry, Topology and Physics, July 2004.
- "Frobenius Categories",
Summer Topology Seminars, University of California San Diego,
September 2004.
- "An introduction to Khovanov homology",
Categories and Logic Seminar, University of Cambridge, October
2004.
- "2-Groups, trialgebras and Hopf Categories",
two talks with Richard Garner and Henry Pfeiffer,
Categories and Logic Seminar, University of Cambridge, January/February
2005.
- "Frobenius algebras and topological quantum field theory",
Seminars for Undergraduates Too , Subgroup of the University of Cambridge Archimedeans, February 2005.
- "Frobenius algebras and thick tangles",
Topology Seminar, University of Chicago, May 2005.
- "From physics to functors", two talks,
Category Theory Seminar, University of Chicago, May 2005.
- "Frobenius algebras and thick tangles",
Quantum Gravity Seminar, University of California, Riverside June 2005.
- "Worldsheet topology and state sum
models", Math/Phys Learning Seminar, Stony Brook
University, October 24th.
- "Frobenius algebras and thick tangles", Joint Algebra and
Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Glasgow, November
2nd 2005.
- "Constructing functors from string worldsheets into algebraic
categories.", Categories and Logic Seminar, University of
Cambridge, November 15th 2005.
- "Frobenius algebras and thick tangles", Pure Mathematics
Colloquiums, University of Sheffield, November 23rd 2005.
- "From adjunctions to extended TQFTs", Topology Seminar,
University of Oxford, November 28th 2005.
- "Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial",
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, December
8th 2005.
- "Khovanov homology and open-closed TQFTs", Homotopy
Theory Mini-conference, Sheffield, January 13th 2006.
- "Open-closed TQFTs and tangle homology", two talks joint with
Hendryk Pfeiffer, University of Chicago, April 2006.
- The topology of open and closed strings,
The Invariant Society, University of Oxford, May 16th, 2006.
- "Open closed TQFTs and tangle homology", Geometry/Topology Seminar, Columbia University, October 2006.
- "Frobenius algebras, quantum topology and higher categories", Thematic Program on Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory, Fields Institute, Toronto, January13th, 2007.
- "Quantum topology and tangle homology", University of California, Riverside,
February 2007
- Link homology and categorification, Kyoto
- "Categorifying quantum groups", QG2 2008 Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity Conference , Nottingham, July 2nd, 2008
- "Categorifying quantum groups", Symplectic geometry seminar, Columbia University, September 12th, 2008.
- "Frobenius algebras and Topological Quantum Field Theory", Undergraduate Mathematics Society, Columbia University, September 17th, 2008.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", Combinatorial Representation Theory, Fall Western Section Meeting of the AMS, University of Britsh Columbia and PIMS, Vancouver, October 4--5, 2008.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", Representation Theory, Geometry & Combinatorics Seminar, Berkeley, October 6th, 2008.
- "Diagrammatic algebra", Graduate Colloquium, George Washington University,
December 8th, 2009.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", Knots in Washington,
George Washington University, January 9-11, 2009.
- "Lectures on categorified quantum groups",
Kyoto University, Japan January 15th - January 27th, 2009
- "A categorification of quantum sl(2)", Nagoya University, January 20th, 2009
- "Categorifying quantum groups", 88th Peripatetic
Seminar on Sheaves and Logic , Cambridge University, April 4-5, 2009.
- "Categorifying quantum sl2",
Categorification and
Geometrisation from Representation Theory University of Glasgow, Apr 13, 2009 - Apr 18, 2009.
- "Categoriying quantum sl2", Algebra and Discrete Mathematics Seminar,
University of California Davis, May 14th-21st, 2009
- "Categorifying quantum groups",
Geometric Representation Theory and Extended Affine Lie Algebras,
University of Ottawa, June 29 - July 3, 2009. (pdf slides)\
- "Categoriying quantum sl2",
Summer School on Link\
homology, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
June 29th -- July 3rd, 2009.
- "Categoriying quantum sl2",
Combinatorial Geometric Structures in Representation Theory, London Mathematical Soci\
ety Durham Symposium, July 6th - July 16th, 2009.
- "Categoriying quantum sl2", Institute for Mathematics, University of Zurich, July 30th-August 9th, 2009.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", New York Area Algebra Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, October 9th, 2009.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", International workshop on Lie algebras and
related topics , NIMS, Daejon, Korea, October 19-22, 2009.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", AMS special session "Homotopy theory and higher algebraic structures", AMS Western Section Meeting, University of California, Riverside, Novermber 7-8th 2009.
- "Categorifying quantum sl2", Knots in Washington XXIX, George Washington University, December 4-6, 2009
- "Categorifying quantum groups", AMS special session
"Cohomological and algebraic methods in representation theory",
National AMS meeting in San Fransico, California, January 13th - 16th, 2010.
- "Diagrammatic categorification of quantum groups",
Introductory Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links, MSRI Ber\
keley, January 25th - 29th, 2010.
- "Categorifying quantum groups", Geometry, Symmetry and Physics seminar, Yale University, February 4th, 2010.
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