Lasagna

Location: Columbia University

Time: Tuesdays 2:00

overview.pdf

Lecture 1 (JS): Overview

6/18, 2:00

We will sketch the definition of the skein lasagna and summarize the main results in the literature.

Lecture 2 (MK): Foam evaluation

6/25, 2:00, Room: 507

We will review sl(3) foam evaluation. See https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304375

Notes below transcribed by You Qi.

sl3notes.pdf

Lecture 3 (MK): The Rasmussen invariant

7/2, 2:00, Room: 507

We will study the Rasmussen invariant and its applications. See https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402131

Notes below transcribed by You Qi.

Milnors_Conjecture.pdf

Lecture 4 (RA): Sweeparound move

7/9, 2:00

We will cover sections 1-3 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.12194

sweeparound.pdf

Lecture 5 (CS): Definition of the skein lasagna

We will cover sections 4-5 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.12194

Lecture 6 (FR): 2-handlebodies

We will cover https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.08520